Every year I seem to stumble into one of those Christmas shops and admire the colour co-ordinated, perfect Christmas trees. Have you noticed that this Christmas the trendy colour seems to be violet? Pink is quite big too. With silver. All very lovely.
And we have a rather nice tree this year. Which we have festooned with all the things we always festoon it with, the bits of our history. There are decorations the kids made at kindergarten, battered now, and squashed from being put away in a box for 11 months out of twelve for years on end, the two sets of lights that must be 20 years old, and cost a fortune at the time, the decorations that have a story behind them - there is the angel without a face because number one son took her off the tree and ate it when he was a year old - can't have been poisonous as he is still with us, the angel for the top of the tree that I got at half price on boxing day and couldn't bear to put her away for a year so she lived on top of a bookcase until Christmas rolled round again. There is tinsel of varying colours, icicles in strings, silver sleighs, pink and green beads and little wooden ornaments with cat teeth marks in them.
There are also a lot of candy canes. It's a Christmas tradition to hang canes in obscure places so the volunteers to take the tree down are rewarded with the previously undiscovered canes.
It's not up to Better Homes and Gardens standard, but it looks damn fine to me.
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Update on that tree - the cat has climbed it tonight and rearranged it somewhat.
Yikes-last year the bucket we had sat the tree in with heaps of water'(of course !!)had a leak so we had to try and move the tree,decorations switch board and all with out having to dismantle it.Not to mention salvaging the presents that got all wet .!!Needless to say this year we have put it in a gubba bucket(so far so good !!)Have a great Xmas Wino !!
YES! Every year I buy a new decoration, sometimes two - call me racy. I (OBVIOUSLY...yawn) have to pack 'em away every year but the JOY on the children's faces as all the old bits of home-made tat and last year's acquisition come out.
Imagine my tree looks like yours (although, mercifully the 4 cats haven't run up it. Yet.) : a little bit of history.
Happy Christmas Wino.X
Actually this year on Christmas Eve I got 7 new decorations, was admiring them in a shop, half thinking I might buy one or two of them and the shop owner came up and offered me an 80% discount if I wanted the seven that were left.
But that is the sum total of our new decorations this year.
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