So at the same time as I'm asking you to send in photos of your favourite Christmas decorations, I thought we could also discuss some of your favourite Christmas songs. Feel free to get in touch with your top picks and tell me why you like them so much.
My choice would have to be from the year I already seem to have talked a lot about - 1973.
When we lived in Britain we were keen listeners of Tom Browne's Top 20 show on Radio 1 at 6pm on Sunday nights, which coincided with teatime. There was always much excitement on the countdown to number one.
For some reason, Dad decided to tape - on his old reel-to-reel Ferguson tape recorder - the show the Sunday before Christmas that year. We've still got that tape, and the tape recorder. ''Straight in at number one'' was what I think is still the best song of its type - Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade.
Unfortunately, that old tape runs out after about the first five seconds of the song and the empty reel spins like mad. But I've heard it so many times regardless, and every time I hear those opening bars they hit me right here and it takes me straight back to being a kid enjoying an English Christmas. It was never a huge hit in New Zealand, but in the UK it has been played to within an inch of its life in the years since it was released.
Let me know your favourite Christmas tunes.
Santa's psychological damage
Psychologists at the University of Exeter are kicking off a major international study/survey of whether the Father Christmas myth harms children.
According to a media release yesterday, Prof Chris Boyle wants to know if finding out Santa is not real can cause psychological trauma and ''lead to a backlash against parents, longer-term resentment or betrayal of trust''.
He also wants to discover at what average age, in different countries, children learn the truth, if that ruined the ''magic'' of Christmas and, after finding out, whether children played along with the myth.
Well, thank you very much Prof Boyle. You've ruined it for me now.
Christmas decorations
I'm still laughing at the photo of the decoration sent in by Mal and Robyn Parker of Dunedin.
''Thousands of Kiwi children would have made this simple paper 'angel','' Robyn says.
''One of my sons - Reuben - must have had a bad day when he drew his evil-looking angel, but it has become a tradition to place it at the top of our Xmas tree.
''Every year I leave it until last, just in case I decide to leave it off, but I cannot imagine our tree without it. Reuben is now 38, by the way.''
I wonder if Reuben will be filling in Prof Boyle's survey?
Anyone got any photos of dogs appearing to be driving their owner's cars? I can't help laughing at them. Please send them in.
Gobbledygook catch-up
The mumbo-jumbo keeps on dribbling in.
Here's a couple so we can finish off with a smile.
''Given softer spending metrics into January and potential foreign-exchange headwinds throughout the year, significant outperformance in the near term may be unlikely.'' (Or ''we're not doing very well''.)
And: ''We can start to leverage off our geographic closeness.'' (Or ''we're neighbours''.)