Something about the light quality from LED Christmas lights does not hit the gold circle. The light quality is cool, very few are multicolored which are not too bad considering, the white lights do not spread any Christmas cheer IMHO. The older fairy lights were much warmer in colour and did what they were supposed to do. It seems that in the mad rush to reduce power consumption, certain elements, like Christmas cheer, of Christmas lights are deemed unnecessary. Sod off bureaucrats and give us back our traditional fairy lights. The lights that we grew up with.
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And the community spirit, remember that? Dividing up everybodies meagre belongings as they died.
I blame vaccinations, it's just not the same nowadays.
The glass baubles were amazing as well. The colours were so deep and even the shiny silvered glass looked as it it were several inches thick - but it was eggshell thin and highly fragile. No wonder dad used to try to stop the cat from playing with them!
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Of course, that was before the Health & Safety Nazis took over.
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It's not "Christmas" yet.
I think you're probably talking about LED early-December lights.
Unrelated but but in a similar vein, I saw a street hawker selling boxes of Christmas lights on the streets of Dublin today. Sets of 1600. Yes you read it correctly, 1600. All white lights. Why??..
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Give me a nice warm clear light anyday (cat sold separately)
Old style lights with the pointy flower shaped plastic collars were the bomb however and evoke a massive sense of nostalgia
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
who gave me a little Christmas wombat to hang on the tree
But the wombat's eyes fell off so I drew a big pair of stoner eyes and a comedy nose on the little fella - he was like our special Xmas wombat.
My kids loved it; my missus hated it.
But it's just really nice to know
that although I've not seen my ex since the turn of the century
apparently that wombat is still on her tree cos the boys won't let her throw it away and insist "it''s part of Christmas"
And there's a bit of Christmas which is about dumb stuff like this.
Memories of lights; memories of wombats.
So much better than the old twenty cheap 12V bulbs in series connected straight to the mains, which had about a 50% chance of playing find the dead bulb every year. Bearing in mind that one wire in the holder is live at 240V when you find the dead one...
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