{"id":14511,"date":"2012-11-20T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=14511"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:46:08","slug":"now-listen-here-its-nearly-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/now-listen-here-its-nearly-christmas","title":{"rendered":"Now listen here, it&#8217;s nearly Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pdvd_002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14513\" style=\"padding-top: 10px;\" title=\"pdvd_002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/pdvd_002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re yearning for the quiet desolation of January free from all this humbug: tough. If you&#8217;re <em>yarning<\/em> to get into the Christmas spirit though, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/cardiff\/2010\/may\/18\/cardiff-knitters-yarn-and-yarn\" target=\"_blank\">take up knitting<\/a> and get stuck into all that&#8217;s going on over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>With trees erected and flashing on Queen Street and in the Bay, with the castle draped in a giant curtain of lights, the city is sending out those festive signals already.<\/p>\n<p>The Hayes is filled with the smell of roasting German sausage as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiffchristmasmarket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Markets<\/a>, and the appearance of a monolithic girder outside City Hall heralds the ice rink and amusements of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.gov.uk\/content.asp?nav=2868,2964,4981&amp;parent_directory_id=2865\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Wonderland<\/a>, which opens on 22 November.<\/p>\n<p>With the temperatures dropping, make sure you keep wrapped up warm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re yearning for the quiet desolation of January free from all this humbug: tough. 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