It's housebling season again, so please do post any suitable pictures here. I don't know if I can successfully link to this picture from facebook, but it's quite an amusing one, so I'll try: here!
Wobsyblingy Is it too late to post some bling from my Christmas in Arkansas? I feel faintly ashamed of myself for my behavior here last year, especially since you guys have posted some amazing stuff.
With permission, I'd also like to post some Very Special Bonus Grannybling:
Northwest London Bling As promised to gleet here is some London house bling. As you know the London house bling is generally a less overwhelming phenomenon than one might find outside the capital. However, there are still some prime examples of illuminated Christmas folly. This one is from West Hampstead NW6.
What can't be picked out are the range of figures along the front wall, which play songs and offer festive greetings to passers-by. Luckily not too loudly; I can't imagine the neighbours love it.
I have many St Helier in Carshalton has many kinds of housebling, and a bright blue rudolph in the first one. (I was shaking so much when I took it, I'll have to go back)
There were also a large amount of blow up snowmen, though you can't see them too well in the dark.
Taken with, I'm ashamed to say, a camera phone. Location: not far from gleet, spotted fortunately or unfortunately depending on your perspective as a result of a wrong turn.
Ignoring the fact that offensive_mango has tried to spoil our fun by applying her American standasrds round here, I give you this, which I saw just round the corner from my sister's house over the Winterval period:
My crappy camera phone doesn't really capture it in all its glory. The most notable missing detail is that the blue and green blobs on the side of the house are actually some kind of moving image being projected.
ultimate bling Look, I'm sorry, but British people have no idea. To American eyes, what you consider "offensive" levels of decoration score on the "not even trying" scale for us.
Take Jennings Osborne as an example, and start thanking your lucky stars. He was a local Arkansas rich guy, whose spoiled daughter wanted some Christmas lights in 1986. His neighbors also put up some lights, so he competed by BUYING THEIR HOUSES.
His lights eventually numbered 4 million, and clogged traffic every Christmas to the point where no emergency services could get through. He had to have his lights removed by court order. They were bought by DISNEYWORLD who now every year have a Jennings Osborne Christmas Lights display.
In addition to the photo below, you can see more pictures here and read the story here. And you really, really should.
By 1993, the display grew to 3 million lights and could be seen by plane from as far as 80 miles away. The extravaganza included a three-dimensional replica of the world, which was suspended 100 feet in the air that would flash PEACE ON EARTH. Also included was a computerized light display of a train engineered by a waving Mickey Mouse. "It was our own little Disney World,'' Jennings recalls with a smile. As a result, thousands from all over the state flocked to see the world's largest home Christmas light display. Television crews from as far away as Japan and Australia chronicled the massive event.
Portsmouth #1 Welcome to Housebling! To get us going, here's an example from around the corner to me, in which a splendid display has been put on top of a garage:
