Originally Posted by Burnaldo:
“i popped into my local co-op and they had choc santas, tubes of xmas sweets, mince pies and of course tubs of celebrations,roses and quality street!!!”
Originally Posted by joshua_welby:
“They also had a huge pile of Chocolate Tins the Cadbury and Nestle ones aka Roses, Quality Street, Celebrations and Heroes”
They tubs of chocolates seem to have suddenly sprung up from nowhere, since the bank holiday a lot of shops seem to have started selling them pretty cheap.
Originally Posted by LinusJ:
“Yep, a week next Sunday marks the 100-days-to-Xmas point, and is when Christmas UK starts posting links (old and new) more often - usually a minimum of two or three links a day until the big day - tracking the run-up to Christmas 2012.”
Good to hear LinusJ. If you could keep mentioning your site in this thread every now and again, it would be much appreciated as I forget to look at it otherwise.
Originally Posted by Burnaldo:
“the best thing about the co-op mince pies, were that they are out of date in october, not even fresh for christmas!!”
I think they make them early for people like us so we can pretend Christmas is sooner than it actually is.
Originally Posted by theSweeney:
“The UK comedy website has the QI Christmas episode tentatively down as 14th December, which seems a bit wrong to me. Far more likely it'll be a week later on the 21st I'd say, with the repeat or XL version a few days later.”
Comedy UK are just taking an informed guess, they don't know anymore than we do on the scheduling front. I doubt the BBC even know when half of this year's Christmas schedule will play out.