Martin wrote in
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:30:25 GMT, Baz wrote:

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in
hill.co.uk:

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:03:49 -0000, Muddymike wrote:

I'm shopping for Christmas already, just orders 5 x 18m strings of
lights for the garden display :-)

I took down the old LED lights that have been outside for the last 4
years or so and are now not very happy. Can't decide if spending a
day cutting open the heatshrink to find the bad connections and
remaking/shrinking them is worth the effort or just buy another set.

I think I might go for another set, hopefully of the same design
type, so I have spares. One LED top just crumbled to dust when I
touched it so not 100% certain that it's just wiring faults or water
into the actual LEDs as well.


I detest the commercialisation of Christmas, you said within this
topic. I share the same view too, but keeping Christmas lights outside
your house for 4 years is a bit of a contradiction I think.;-)
Please don't take any offence, I am not knocking you, I think it is
great to keep traditions alive.

In the 1960s, did you ever see the house, on the other side of the
road to the Chequers in Knebsworth, that amongst other oddities had a
Santa permanently nailed to a chimney?

Was it nailed? or just screwed? Well you mentioned Chequers, that is what
comes to mind for some of us. A bad, bad place where decisions are made by
louts for future louts, over a skinfull of alcohol and then a pied-a-terre
shows up out of thin air. Very nice work, if you can get it.

Baz