Way too early for Christmas! It's only September!!

It is incredible really! Even though we are in retail and we live for the sight of shoppers coming to our site, there is one thing that we just cannot bring ourselves to do.... and that is starting Christmas in late Summer.

A few years ago I went to London for a weekend and decided to go and do a bit of window-shopping in Harrod's famous store in central London. It was early September and the weather was just amazing. It was warm, with blue skies and people wandering around in shorts and t-shirts. We stepped into Harrod's and made our way down to the basement area (I had to have a look at their latest gadgets and electronics) and as we walked down the stairs, the very first thing we saw was a Christmas tree... in September, on a warm day!

Now I love Christmas as much as the next person and we all know that it has become so commercialised now that the original meaning is lost to more and more people every year. Even so, when I see or hear a mention of Christmas or Christmas Shopping in Summer (and yes, to me September is still Summer!), it just makes me a little ill and makes me feel like running away very quickly.

Luckily, I was able to dismiss the unpleasant experience in London and the lack of taste Harrod's demonstrated in having a Christmas feature this early in the year by explaining it away to myself as perhaps being an 'English' thing. I mean every nation has its own quirks and maybe a Summer Christmas is their way or drawing themselves closer to their Australian friends.

So I have to say that I was even more surprised when I walked into Brown Thomas on Dublin's Grafton Street last weekend (again, just window shopping - I don't have a penny to spend and especially not there) to see the same thing all over again. As I climbed (well, I just stood on the escalator actually), the sight of a Christmas tree loomed up in front of me! So it obviously wasn't just a mad English thing then - the madsers are here too now!

Well, here at Pressieport, while we'd love people to shop like maniacs all year long, we feel that there have to be limits to what we do. September and even October are way too early for Christmas-sy behaviour. Rest assured, you won't ever see that on our site before the clocks change back to winter time and that's a promise!

An out-of-this-world original and personal gift - An Acre of Land on the Moon

A very original gift! An Acre of Land on the Moon

We recently added this wonderful original gift to our list of favourite presents. The story behind how it came about that you could own an acre of land on the moon is nearly as original as the gift itself and you can read all about it here.

We think that probably one of the main reasons as to why this gift is so popular is simply because it's personal, not expensive and very original and fun.

How does it work?

Well, when you buy an Acre of Land on the Moon giftbox, you will receive an official title deed to that specific plot of land on the Moon in side the box. This deed is unique and it's all you need to do.

But, if you want, you can do a bit more personalization. You can either contact the Lunar Embassy to have your name registered officially against that plot of land, or for a small additional cost, you can also request that they issue you with Personalised Deeds. These last two steps are totally optional.

Once you've placed your order, we will almost always have your gift out to you the next business day as long as you order before 2pm on a weekday.

Don't forget, you get free overnight delivery Nationwide when you place an order for €50 or more!

It's been a while.....

I was just having a quick look at our Blog to see when it was that a post was last put up. Would you believe that it was way back in October?! Since then, we've had Christmas, New Year, a ton of snow, a big freeze and now a monsoon!

At least we know that from now on the days get longer, the nights shorter and with a bit of luck, we'll have a great Spring and Summer!

Well, next stop is Valentine's Day which, can you believe it, is only about a month away?!

Anyway, I hope your year has got off to a good start and that this year will be better than last year...

Cheers

Fred

Glad that's all over!

Well, I spent a horrible weekend having a very love/hate relationship with the snow.

Having decided to go to Birmingham at the weekend, I then found myself stranded at the airport overnight as Birmingham airport decided to close its runway (yep, they only have the one!). This left me with the lovely task of trying to get re-booked (along with 154 other stranded Aer Lingus travellers) on to a flight for the next day. This was followed by trying to find a hotel in a city which was already burtsing to capacity with snowbound commuters and then having to face the propect of getting only a few hours sleep before trecking back to the airport again....

Having got through that and eventually returned to work here at Pressieport, I found the weather had been getting steadily worse while I had been clearing my mailbox. So at about 4pm-ish, I decided to abandon ship and make my way home (I'm nearly finished ranting.....).

It took me almost 3 hours to get home (it normally takes about 20 minutes) and I can dafely say that I have never seen anything like it before. It was complete mayhem out there on the roads.

I don't blame anyone for the chaos though.... I mean, no one had any idea it was going to snow or that there might be a cold snap, so why would we have expected any salt-gritters out beforehand!

Ah well, happy Wednesday!!