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Enough of this festive jollity, that is the Christmas Tree down, sawn into little bits and put in the gardening recycling bin for uplift when collections start by Council in February. Have a good technique now where I cover the tree with an old king size duvet cover which lets me remove it without dropping needles all through the house.

After lunch it will be a trip to the attic with all the tinsel baubles and lights then can get the corner of the lounge where the tree was back as a dumping ground until next December.

Bilbobaggins wrote:Enough of this festive jollity, that is the Christmas Tree down, sawn into little bits and put in the gardening recycling bin for uplift when collections start by Council in February. Have a good technique now where I cover the tree with an old king size duvet cover which lets me remove it without dropping needles all through the house.

After lunch it will be a trip to the attic with all the tinsel baubles and lights then can get the corner of the lounge where the tree was back as a dumping ground until next December.

Took all our stuff down on Thursday. Don't have a real tree but for others it may be worth noting that a garden centre local to us is offering a 20% discount voucher in exchange for your real tree, may be worth seeing if any near you are offering anything similar.

Just brought in all the exterior guttering Christmas lights, cleaned and boxed, just some small delicate lights to box up for next year.
No Christmas trees as our rooms are small.
All away till next year.
Have a good day.
Boaby

It's not the 6th yet is it?

Decorations down. Humbug! Still celebrating down here until 12th night. Well in truth the grandchildren are over on Wednesday so we will be getting them to do a lot of it. They are still of an age when they like helping.

Last year we bought a 4ft rooted tree in a large pot. Since we took it outside into the garden 11 months ago it's now grown a foot in height and two foot in width. So we though why not leave it there, decorate it and string up some outside LED's on it. It's looked very healthy throughout the festive season and has brought pleasure to the kids passing the front of the house, and no mess inside.
Still going to wait till 12th night before before the decorations come down, but the tree will continue to live outside.
Al.