Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 26th December, 2024)

Wigan Council have put up many Christmas trees and lights on pubs and shops throughout the district, many on street lamp columns in small shopping communities and they look great.
Years ago you would never see plain glass windows in pubs, they always had frosted glass so yonger people couldn't see inside. Changing times I suppose.

Hic! I feel a bit tipsy after three days of p-a-d pubs! However, that looks really nice; I have passed it during the day but the cosy-looking illuminated rooms give it a welcoming, rather old-fashioned look, and I could almost imagine Victorian/Edwardian Standishers partaking of a glass of porter in there.

Irene, I would agree, it has been a three day pub crawl from Haigh through Aspull and finishing up in Standish. Tomorrow it might be in a Detox Clinic :-(

I hope that everyone had a wonderful day yesterday.
Our ‘Nellie’ was cooked to perfection and the family dinner and get together was very enjoyable and entertaining.

Very tasteful and welcoming.
There’s nothing worse after Christmas to see deflated Father Christmas blow ups flapping in the wind…
( makes me think somebody goes around with a pin popping them!) Same with all those expensive lights left hanging unlit till next year. It needs a professional to put them up and take them down. All along the gutters and windows and doors. As if there’s a competition going on who can light up the best.
We of a certain age will remember the coloured paper decorations stuck up with drawing pins along the walls and ceilings all pointing to the central light bulb in the middle. Carefully packed away until next year. Nothing thrown away. Balloons getting smaller by the day and bursting with a bang! Another gone! Life was simpler then. You would never see Christmas decor hanging around weeks after Christmas.

We had a good day also Colin apart from my youngest daughter coming down with the flu and spending the day in her bedroom but managed to blow a couple off kisses down,we can’t be to carful as we’re off to Tenerife early January,have you got a regular pub in Standish Colin,cheers everyone.

I still have some of those paper ceiling decoration, Veronica, but they are too fragile to hang now; I display them in an an old toffee tin on the fireplace. However, the ancient, faded paper bells and balls are on display and I have Christmas cards displayed "on t'cornish", from the 1940s and 1950s and even one from the 1930s! And paper lanterns on the tree from Peter's childhood home in the fifties along with many aged baubles and two 1950s Woolworths fairies, (who sang "Nobody loves a Fairy when she's Forty"?....mine are 70!) They will all be "carefully packed away", as you say, in January. They are treasured.

I know you have Irene. I imagine a lot of the 40’s events folk have them as well..some of them still live in the 40’s..I’ve just had a long walk to shed some of the excesses off. Loads of deflated Snowmen and Santa’s looking sorry for themselves. …;o))

I totally agree with Veronica.
Where I live people put up fairly lights (2-3years ago) on the gutters and don't bother taking them down, some light up some don't, they look awful, dirty with grime. They look so silly during the Summer months. Enough of that, hope everyone is enjoying Christmas.

I do agree , Veronica and Arthur, about the outside lights....they should be removed after Christmas and replaced the following Christmas; they look depressing in July! My neighbour has an enormous blow-up Father Christmas which I have sometimes thought has been "popped" by passing revellers as, like me, she has no garden, and people pass right in front of her door.....however, he re-inflates daily so is obviously attached to some device. But at least he disappears indoors after Christmas.

You only see Christmas lights left up all year round on the council estates.

Far from it Tom, some people in Council houses care about their homes as much as home owners do.

I am glad
not ever sad
what my place did teach me
who am
my soul it can
stand prouder than do some
I need not hide
for truth is clear
hidden is forsaken
in hides in rooms
of forever glooms
when a soul enriched
just flies ..!