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.
Then I test the…..
…….to check they are working.
The following afternoon I put the “star” on the top of the tree…….
……..then the lights……
…..and the decorations are removed from the boxes and spread out…..
……so I can choose them one at a time to……..
Then I finished off with the tinsel – there seemed to be a lot – did I buy more last year?
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)…….
…..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!