Christmas definitely coming
Dec. 11th, 2005 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperToday went down, parents planning the big christmas do we have for the neighbours every year, sunday before christmas. Its nickname is 'Feeding the Five Thousand' since the amount of food we make for it is *frightening*. Our neighbours are complete gannets. This means everything has to be planned for a good weekend in advance.
Then it was the father-daughter task of getting the tree from Yattendon. A colleague at work had said 'um, doesn't anyone feel a bit guilty chopping these things down just for a few weeks?' I fold my arms and say 'Not me, we get ours from the biggest European plantation for christmas trees. We buy one, another gets planted' Seriously. Yattendon has acres of christmas trees - fields of everything from three inches high to 60 foot fuckers for town squares that you pass along the road to it.
Tree chosen, paid for, lugged home in car, room cleared for gangway space, tree put up at the right angle, then late afternoon spent decorating it while dad puts up all the room decorations.
Now going to watch Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake.
Then it was the father-daughter task of getting the tree from Yattendon. A colleague at work had said 'um, doesn't anyone feel a bit guilty chopping these things down just for a few weeks?' I fold my arms and say 'Not me, we get ours from the biggest European plantation for christmas trees. We buy one, another gets planted' Seriously. Yattendon has acres of christmas trees - fields of everything from three inches high to 60 foot fuckers for town squares that you pass along the road to it.
Tree chosen, paid for, lugged home in car, room cleared for gangway space, tree put up at the right angle, then late afternoon spent decorating it while dad puts up all the room decorations.
Now going to watch Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake.
