CHRISTMAS will come even earlier this year - if you live in Shaw Drive, Knutsford.

For a family have decided to decorate their entire home two months before the big day to cheer people up.

“Everything’s gone wrong over the past eight weeks,” said Jamie Stanton.

“To be honest everything’s hard because it’s all crept up on us but you’ve just got to get on with it really.”

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But he said the hundreds of lights would not be switched on regularly until December 1 because it costs about £10 a night to power all the bulbs.

“There’s quite a lot of voltage there, but when it’s all lit up it does look great,” said Jamie, 40.

He and his family began putting up a larger display about four years ago. Now they all help to choose the decorations and decide where they will go.

One of last year’s additions will definitely have to stay in the same place this time.

Jamie said the Father Christmas, which clings to the chimney, could not be taken down.

“He’s been up there all year because it’s quite slippery on that roof,” he said.

Jamie usually starts to put up the decorations early because work commitments mean he has to do it over several days.

His wife Lynnette, daughter Chelsea, 7, and son Josh, 14, all help out.

They run the wires through every window in the house to different plug sockets. The family believe there could be more than 700 bulbs in the display already.

“We do have to change some of them every now and then,” said Jamie.

The display already includes several Father Christmas figures, as well as a train, a snowman, a snowflake and lights on the roof.

But Jamie, a clerk at the Belle Vue Greyhound Stadium, still has a few more additions - including another 6ft train - to put up.

He said watching the film the Golden Compass, which tells a fantasy story about the Northern Lights, had inspired him. “I’m now trying to get my neighbours to join in,” he said.

But it could be difficult due to the rising cost of electricity.

Last month newspapers told how a couple had cancelled their Christmas display because of soaring energy prices.

Bernard and Denise Lumsden had raised £15,000 for charities over 20 years.

Their house was usually covered with about 50,000 bulbs and became one of Britain’s biggest Christmas lights displays.

But in October the couple decided to cancel this year’s fund-raising and sell the decorations.