Oh Christmas Tree

[Garden Carpet]

To go with the other christmas thread (Christmas Menu) I was wondering what sort of christmas tree you all plan to have. Artificial, white, green, silver, black!!!! Real... ordinary needle casting or the spruce type.

Is it decorated in traditional fashion... multi coloured with mixed colour lights or is it colour themed?

I am looking forward to seeing this

On a similar vein.. what about outside lights.. or is this worthy of a thread of its own?


jaki (trying very hard to be less of a grinch)

[Dennis1234567]

Don't have one. It just encourages reindeer to dump on rooftops.

[Garden Carpet]

Oh Dennis... love it!!
jaki

[Tormentil]

False tree (green), traditionally decked.

Other christmas trimmings are old fashioned too. The old craipe paper strips (two colours) twisted together, looped across the ceiling and round the walls. Although this year I aint bothering to put them up and no doubt my two girls will go spare when they come home, but they're now 22 & 24 years old and I aint getting any younger. So it''l just be the old Crimble Tree this year.

[fbcpmike]

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

To go with the other christmas thread (Christmas Menu) I was wondering what sort of christmas tree you all plan to have. Artificial, white, green, silver, black!!!! Real... ordinary needle casting or the spruce type. Is it decorated in traditional fashion... multi coloured with mixed colour lights or is it colour themed? I am looking forward to seeing this On a similar vein.. what about outside lights.. or is this worthy of a thread of its own? jaki (trying very hard to be less of a grinch)

We have that new variety - plastica hongkonggensis. Dark green.
Did used to have the "real" ones but went away due to cost and mess, but we did used to recyle them afterwards though. As for dressing, reasonably traditional, some of the baubles are over 50 years old, real glass and some are treasured possessions, three set of multicoloured lights.

As for outside, twenty sets currently, takes a day to put up. What about a thread ?, pictures, best lit house competition ?. I'm supposed to be the grumpy old git in the house, so I started the lights just to proove I'm not, an old git that is, grumpy ?, humph and ba humbug.. Now its strange that its not me who wants more lights, or says "isn't it about time you put them up".

Looking forward to little ones face when she sees the sooty fingerprints and the mince pies and sherry gone.

[Paul mabbott]

Recyclable.
For our solstice tree we dig up a yew seedling every now and then, grow them on in pots until they're the appropriate size. We liberate them when they get too big.

[Wild-Woman]

A 7' green plastic monster that seems always to loose the base feet every year. Nowt else though. Can't be asked.

[nightshade]

I will miss our old cat storming up the tree just to show that he could
This year it will be a real tree (£20 )artificial tree worn out!
We grew one on in a huge pot which is too heavy to lift so it sits outside
I pass several remote cottages and they have simple white fayrie lights in trees or hedges
simply beautiful

[rlchew]

There will not be one in my flat .... but there will be 1000's of real ones in the Scottish Highlands where we are staying for Christmas .

Richard

[badgerwatcher]

Your website looks great Richew! Will look later.
We'll have the same artificial tree, which I hate, as I love real ones, but hate watching them die!
Carefully chosen over the years decorations, including tiny books of carols, tiny embroidered velvet cushions, brocade baubles, wooden carved animals, strings of gold beads, american birds with feather tails, crystal birds, crystal icicles, gold musical instruments, tiny santa stockings, lots of cherubs. Understated, you know!
Hand made, very tatty fairy, made donkeys years ago by my sons, now all in their thirties!
And around the house dreadful singing creatures of all sorts, some of which are designed to set each other off, and which sing carols if you walk by, or look at them in a funny way, which my partner can't resist buying, and giving me as presents!
And a big sprig of holly on the ironing pile and another on the laundry basket, and one on the handle of the hoover!
Busy decorating garden with as many feeders as I can, in a festive way, but won't remove them after twelth night!
And solar powered scary baubles from Homebase, that hang in trees in threes and go from red to green to blue when the mood takes them!

[honeybee]

Being a scrooge this year and not having any decs because the house is a building site. My daughter's going to help with the decs at my mum's where we'll be most of xmas day. Got a plastic tree there. Have had real in the past; borrowed and replanted!

[Deer Stalker]

Got my way this year & we're not having one. Nothing to tidy up after xmas now.

[mrs fish]

Had a busy day getting the tree, potting it up and decorating it

[matt_xyz]

we've gone for a real one, traditionally decorated. Had a bit of a shock when I got it home and took off the netting yesterday - a small frog jumped out! It had obviously been taking refuge in the middle of the tree. After chasing it around my house for a while I managed to catch it and let it go in the garden, but I thought it should be hibernating by now.

Matt

[Garden Carpet]

Originally Posted by badgerwatcher

Your website looks great Richew! Will look later.
We'll have the same artificial tree, which I hate, as I love real ones, but hate watching them die!
Carefully chosen over the years decorations, including tiny books of carols, tiny embroidered velvet cushions, brocade baubles, wooden carved animals, strings of gold beads, american birds with feather tails, crystal birds, crystal icicles, gold musical instruments, tiny santa stockings, lots of cherubs. Understated, you know!
Hand made, very tatty fairy, made donkeys years ago by my sons, now all in their thirties!
And around the house dreadful singing creatures of all sorts, some of which are designed to set each other off, and which sing carols if you walk by, or look at them in a funny way, which my partner can't resist buying, and giving me as presents!
And a big sprig of holly on the ironing pile and another on the laundry basket, and one on the handle of the hoover!
Busy decorating garden with as many feeders as I can, in a festive way, but won't remove them after twelth night!
And solar powered scary baubles from Homebase, that hang in trees in threes and go from red to green to blue when the mood takes them!

I really am dissapointed in you Badgerwatcher, I would have thought you were the last person to use bad language on an open forum especialy at this time of the year. Go and walk around the garden till you understand the error of your ways
jaki

[badgerwatcher]

Sorry, Garden Carpet. I'm contrite!

[Garden Carpet]

BW.. did you enjoy the walk around the garden tho?
jaki

[badgerwatcher]

Oh, yes thanks! A funny thing happened!

As I walked past the entrance to the Badger sett, in contemplative mood, I thought I could hear music. It sounded like a brass band and I could hear also a sound like marching feet, or maybe paws? It seemed to me as I stood there that I could hear distant singing. I realised it was the Badgers, singing a little song:

Badger March

We are the Badger Band!
We dig in chalk, or mud, or sand.
In daytime we stay quiet and still,
In our home inside the hill.

Oompa! Oompa! Snuffle, snuffle! Grunt!
We’re going on a peanut hunt.

We are the Badger Crowd!
We are chewing very loud!
We look for worms and slugs and snails,
We’re waggling our little tails.

Oompa! Oompa! Snuffle, snuffle! Grunt!
We’re going on a peanut hunt.

We are the Badger Bunch!
Listen to those snails go crunch!
We’re digging with our little feet.
Peanuts are our favourite treat.

Oompa! Oompa! Snuffle, snuffle! Grunt!
We’re going on a peanut hunt.

Oompa! Oompa! Snuffle, snuffle! Grunt!
We’re going on a peanut hunt.

As I tiptoed away, a grunting voice from just inside the Yew tree said, -

Wish everyone on WAB a merry Christmas.

I looked inside the Yew tree, but there was nobody there!