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Oct 30th 2013 | 1:06 am

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Animal

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Re: 2013 Christmas Tree Watch

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Originally Posted by Souvy

I got a shock just now when it got light and I looked out of my office window. It was not a welcome sight.

Window cleaner in Speedo's ?

Oct 30th 2013 | 1:10 am

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Re: 2013 Christmas Tree Watch

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Originally Posted by dbd33

Snow?

Yup. Not much, admittedly, but a starck reminder of what is to come nevertheless.

Oct 30th 2013 | 1:36 am

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Re: 2013 Christmas Tree Watch

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Originally Posted by Souvy

Yup. Not much, admittedly, but a starck reminder of what is to come nevertheless.

this wins my typo of the day award

A starck reminder is presumably one of the pretentious Frenchman's famous "low cost" alarm clocks...

Oct 30th 2013 | 1:43 am

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Re: 2013 Christmas Tree Watch

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Originally Posted by Oakvillian

this wins my typo of the day award

A starck reminder is presumably one of the pretentious Frenchman's famous "low cost" alarm clocks...

http://files.softicons.com/download/...cost_clock.png

Ooops!

My bad. Starck (a different one) is a company I write about all the time in my line of work. My fingers were on autopilot.

Oct 30th 2013 | 2:00 am

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Re: 2013 Christmas Tree Watch

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Originally Posted by Animal

Window cleaner in Speedo's ?

Oct 30th 2013 | 5:44 am

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Re: 2013 Christmas Tree Watch

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Originally Posted by Oakvillian

this wins my typo of the day award

A starck reminder is presumably one of the pretentious Frenchman's famous "low cost" alarm clocks...

http://files.softicons.com/download/...cost_clock.png

Gosh, you are posh.

Oct 30th 2013 | 6:10 am

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Re: 2013 Christmas Tree Watch

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Originally Posted by Oink

Gosh, you are posh.

I knew somebody who was working for Alessi when Philippe Starck was designing for them in the late 80s and early 90s. His idea of "low-cost, functional design" and normal people's ideas of "low-cost, functional design" were occasionally some considerable distance apart. Mind you, those space rocket lemon squeezer things looked very cool, but I never owned one so don't know if they actually worked.

Nov 6th 2013 | 1:13 am

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Re: 2013 Christmas Tree Watch

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Originally Posted by leith

Not much chance of Christmas trees or outdoor decorations being put up here (Vancouver Island) for a while. A lot of things such as roses and hydrangeas are still blooming and some of us have got our winter vegetable gardens going. We get about one day of snow here and all the bulbs start coming up about the end of January. I'm still pulling up weeds -arrrgh!

We've had snow on the ground for 10 days now! ( Calgary)

Nov 6th 2013 | 6:20 am

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Re: 2013 Christmas Tree Watch

Bristol, your YouTube clip was fantastic! Thank you.

Can somebody tell me when I am meant to plant bulbs here? I get conflicting information from the neighbours, and the books I get from the library still leave me in confusion

We have a Christmas jingle on the radio...It came on last week and makes me feel nauseous.

Last edited by MillieF; Nov 6th 2013 at 6:20 am. Reason: Typo