Oh Christmas Tree

Sian is blogging a christmas memory each Sunday til Christmas.....and has invited us all to join her Christmas Club.........and do the same.......see her post here........and link yours up if you join in.

My strongest memory of childhood christmas is the tree.......always a real one.......always touching the ceiling once the angel was on top [wonder if my dad took a tape measure with him??].......to me it seemed absolutely enormous.......always bought at the market the Sunday before christmas.......nobody had their tree up in early December back then........always placed in the lounge window.........we then spent the afternoon decorating it.......using chairs and even a small ladder......the decorations carefully taken from their box and the tissue paper protecting them unwrapped........many of them were breakable.......and the angel on the top always going on last.

This is a tradition we've tried to keep going.......though our tree usually goes up in mid-December........and I usually add a new decoration each year........an afternoon spent decorating it........usually led by DD2.......who still LOVES christmas decorations........though in the past couple of years she's decided everything on the tree should be colour co-ordinated........and nothing 'naff' allowed!!!!!

edited....this is not a picture of the fireplace we have now.....sadly!!