When will the Christmas lights be taken down?

[Rilla]

Does anyone else find it abit silly to still have the Christmas lights still up around town mid January?
Not only are they still up, they're still being lit. It's beginning to annoy me...

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[Cain]

maybe they're winter lights, in which case they could be up for a while.

i put Christmas lights on my bookcase, but they make the flat look really nice, and lots of other people have fairy lights up all year round.

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[Jess]

Isn't it bad luck (for the whole of St. Andrews...over exam period...eek!!!)....where's the origin of that anyway, anyone know??


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[queen of scots]

Quoting Cain from 17:12, 15th Jan 2006
maybe they're winter lights, in which case they could be up for a while.

I'm sure I remember reading somewhere last year that they were indeed winter lights, and would be up until the end of January/start of Feb. I wonder how much the electricity they use costs though. Another waste of council tax, probably.

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[M_A_T_T_H_E_W]

It is bad luck to leave them up after twelth night
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk ... welfth.htm
but i have been unable to find the origin for this, an interesting news story from 2001,
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/ ... splay.html

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[David Bean]

I do know that the Merchants' Association are rather pleased by the new lights they've been buying over the past few years, so I guess they'll be there a while yet!

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[the reason for the word w]

In the catholic church the christmas period (i.e. celebrations related to the birth of christ) continues until candlemas, which is some time in Ferbruary I think??? So technically (according to the Catholic Church) they can stay up until then.

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[Guest]

Are you kidding?! I love the lights (Christmas or winter) and I'm very pleased they're still up and lit. Since it still gets dark here rather early, it's nice to have the lights to brighten up Market Street and make things less depressing, espeically during exams.

[Tweedle-Dum]

I like them too, they look nice.

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[Yeats]

Actually in the Catholic Church decorations are taken down after Epiphany (January 6th in England, Sunday nearest January 6th in Scotland)

Edited to correct spelling
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[bramble]

Pretty pretty liiiights

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[flarewearer]

I'm pretty sure the ideas surrounding the bad luck of leaving things up after christmas came before the invention of the electric lightbulb

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[rob 'f*ck off' wine boy]

Quoting Rilla from 17:08, 15th Jan 2006
Does anyone else find it abit silly to still have the Christmas lights still up around town mid January?
Not only are they still up, they're still being lit. It's beginning to annoy me...

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"O unworn world enrapture me, enrapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech"

honestly, who fucking cares