Put up the Christmas Tree

So on Wednesday 2nd December a friend and I go out and buy our Christmas trees – hers is a big one with no pot and mine is a small one in a pot that I hope will last at least 2 years and possibly 3 or 4.  Together we put hers up and then I take mine home, get a plant saucer to put the pot on, put it in the right place and look at it.

On Friday I get the decorations down from the loft, clean the outside of the pot and put the coloured paper round it.

Tree!
Tree!

Then I test the…..

......lights....
……lights….

…….to check they are working.

The following afternoon I put the “star” on the top of the tree…….

Probably a poinsettia not a star!
Probably a poinsettia not a star!

……..then the lights……

......go on the tree....
……go on the tree….

…..and the decorations are removed from the boxes and spread out…..

Decorations moved from boxes
Decorations moved from boxes

……so I can choose them one at a time to……..

.....put on the tree.
…..attach to the tree.

Then I finished off with the tinsel – there seemed to be a lot – did I buy more last year?

(Nearly) finished.
(Nearly) finished.

Minor adjustments over the next few days for the bits I didn’t like, and there we are!

AND I beat my friend to finishing by 4 days – but hers is much bigger!  Hers is the tasteful type with 2 colours (gold and black this year)…….

Big Tree
Big Tree

…..but mine is the sort where I use all the different decorations given to me or acquired over the years.  I quite like the tasteful types, but then I like tradition, too.

So how did we get a big and a small tree in my car?  With the back seats down and the big tree sticking in my friend’s ear!

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