…all is bright

There’s no lack of over-the-top Christmas house decorating in this burg, but Maisie’s Magical Christmas house takes the fruitcake.

I took my niece and her Australian friend there last night for a little look-see.

It’s a private house, owned by someone who loves Christmas a lot

or maybe just really hates their neighbours.

These people have been decorating their house since at least 2004. You can see from these pictures on their website that it started relatively modestly but has grown to a scale that far surpasses anything done by any local department store.

Santa in his front door grotto.

Seasonal tunes are piped over tinny speakers hidden around the property – at least a half dozen different Christmas songs playing all at once.

A little nightmarish, really (I wish my camera had audio).

All the windows have animated displays.

Penguins and polar bears frolic together in geographic inaccuracy.

We found this basement window the most charming – a toy train makes a circuit of a snow-covered village with a working carousel and people skating on a pond.

Astounding.

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