{"id":1006,"date":"2018-12-02T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2019-11-19T23:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T23:43:18","slug":"home-teresa-decorates-the-xmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Home: Teresa decorates the Xmas tree"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Xmas
Teresa scales great heights…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We put up our Xmas Tree, a fairly decent fairly sizeable fake, with built-in lights, yesterday. I brought it down from the attic, and put it together. Teresa then decorated it, with baubles and what-not.<\/p>\n

\"Xmas
… to decorate our Yule Tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Teresa’s a wee’un, and needs\u00a0the stepladder to reach the upper regions. She looks pretty cute dressing the tree, I think.<\/p>\n

\"Xmas
Tiggy and I watch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tigger and I sat on the couch, enjoying watching Teresa at work, and taking snaps and offering our encouragement. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"Xmas
Tigger looks calmly on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I switched off the lamp nearest the tree, so as to better see the both it and the lights and decorations, and so on. Lovely!<\/p>\n

\"Xmas
Looking pretty, um… pretty?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For years I insisted we have a real<\/i> tree, as it’s more organic\/authentic. But the annual cost, plus\u00a0the mess and maintenance… in the end Teresa successfully persuaded me (i.e. cajoled\/nagged!) to get a fake. Ours had a RRP of \u00a3299.99, but was reduced to \u00a399 in a post Xmas clearance sale at Scotsdales, Trumpington, Cambridge.<\/p>\n

The real trees we’d been buying were costing \u00a325-35+ each year. This is our fifth year with this fake tree, so it’s just started saving us money. It also saves time decorating, as the lights are built-in, and there’s no maintenance, as it doesnt need setting in a pot, watering, or dropped-needle clearance.<\/p>\n

Ok, it is<\/i> a departure from bringing real nature into the home for Yule, but one could argue it’s greener in that respect. And granted, it doesn’t look 100% real or natural. But it’s pretty good. It’s certainly miles better than any of the fake trees I used to see in homes growing up as a kid, which is when I formed my strong allegiance with real Xmas trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We put up our Xmas Tree, a fairly decent fairly sizeable fake, with built-in lights, yesterday. I brought it down from the attic, and put it together. Teresa then decorated it, with baubles and what-not. Teresa’s a wee’un, and needs\u00a0the stepladder to reach the upper regions. She looks pretty cute dressing the tree, I think. … <\/p>\n

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