I once registered the domain name tackyxmas.co.uk with the plan of taking photos of people’s exterior Christmas lights. I was then going to upload the pictures to a website for viewing pleasure. Once I’d set things in motion I realised that despite my misgivings about the lighting displays themselves, it might be considered a bit offside putting images of peoples homes on-line. So I abandoned the idea, which was a shame.
The thing is, the way people are decorating their houses is getting way out of hand. The entire frontage of their homes are strewn with an array of light strings; fake animals, generally reindeer and the odd huge Father Christmas (Coca-cola variety, obviously). What are they trying to achieve? It strikes me that it’s nothing more than Beat the Joneses. John Jones up the street has an impressive display, right, I’m going even bigger.
What has any of this got to do with Christmas anyway. Let’s celebrate the alleged birthday of Jesus by sticking hundreds if not thousands of light bulbs on the outside of our house. In fact let’s do it just after bonfire night, that way we can get that warmy fuzzy Christmassy feeling for about seven weeks. Nice. We can conveniently forget about green issues for the festive period. Instead of switching stuff off to do our bit to save the planet, we can switch shit loads more stuff on!
Oh that last paragraph just made me think about something. I bet those people who do illuminate their homes have a green waste wheely bin. Can you imagine the ridiculous idea of someone taking their cardboard and paper and plastic out to their green wheely bin whilst at the same time lit up by their festive display. It sounds ridiculous doesn’t it but it will be happening, you just know it. Amazing. I’m going to keep on the look-out in the next few weeks to try and see that situation with my own eyes.
I hate Christmas
Dave
