Christmas Tree

[Im a BusyBee]

when will you put yours up? who is not going to have one?

[whiskeysheri]

Blimey! Where do you live, what.the??

[1955]

Round about the 15th December. Used to get a 6 ft real one every year but got tired of having to go pick one and then the mess and then hassle of getting rid of it after Christmas. Now it's a 6 ft pre-lit artificial one from M&S.

[smudge]

Usually put our tree up about the 10 Dec. Only like plain twinkling lights, etc., on it though, as I can't stand those flashing ones indoors!

Also put them along the top & down the side of the garage between the passion flower, which looks pretty & festive.

Can't wait!

[puddicat]

Nope no tree no deccies no nothing!!!

[smudge]

lol BOO - we have our tree in the bay window & I always tie the middle of the trunk to the radiator with a long piece of green string - just in case!

Like Whiskey - I'm a bit of a perfectionist & have to stand back a few times, squinting to see if the lights & hangy things are all in the right places!

[Totterdown]

Puddicat, why not? I'm on my own but always make an effort. Not sure about the tree this year though, due to that pesky kitten of mine!

[Im a BusyBee]

oh gina why not??

[what..the?]

plymouth

[Octavius]

Mid-December.

We always had a real tree growing up, but nowadays I prefer to see trees planted firmly where they should be rather than demonstrating their slow painful death in our hallway with the undignified fairy lights and token tinsel.

So we have a rather large fake one, which does the same job for the adults and kiddies, for the statutory 2 weeks or so.

[Octavius]

Not entirely Doc, but essentially yes, since paganism refers to any country-dweller. To cut down a whole tree and bring it into the house for adornment would have been far too destructive for the nature loving pagans. They did bring in boughs though. The ancient Egyptians did the same with the leaves of palm trees and decorated their homes with its branches during the winter solstice. The ancient Greeks actually started decorating the darn things, and lo and behold the Romans copied this during Saturnalia, decorating evergreen trees with �bits of metal and replicas of Bacchus�.

So you could day its Egyptian, Greek or Roman. Pagan all the same I suppose.