Looking Out To Sea

Fugly trees for the win!

We fetched our first ever Christmas tree yesterday. We got down to the decoration job this afternoon. First thing: the trunk was too damn big for the stand. And we have no saw, so we ended up borrowing a piddling little thing from a neighbour. In future we need a real saw. And some foresight. We’ve run the borrowed saw down to the nub — luckily the tree had been sitting in water overnight, so it wasn’t dry and tough.

Once we passed that obstacle and the tree would stand mostly-vertical of its own accord, it was decoratin’ time. Yay fairy lights! Boo fairy lights. Fairy lights not work.

We had to abandon the proper lights and use a small string of “pink heart fairy lights”. We now have the campest Christmas tree in the street. By quite some margin, I’ll bet. The pink lights also clash hideously with the red tinsel (one piece) and the decorations (four pieces).

This is a really poor show, and we’ll need to try a bit harder in future. I’ll be looking for better stuff tomorrow.