Can I tell you a Christmas joke I heard 20 or so years ago?
A son asks his father, ‘why do we put a fairy on top of a Christmas tree?’
The father answered
’Well son, 100 years ago during the war, when people in British were worried about their future in the depths of WW1 Father Christmas had a great idea on how best to cheer everyone up.
He got his elf’s to cut down Christmas trees for the fairy’s to deliver at night to everyone’s home to spread some Christmas cheer.
Each fairy was assigned a tree and a house, and although their trees were very heavy, and prickly they flapped their little wings, and slowly but surely began delivering trees to homes to bring festive cheer!
sadly one fairy lost her address when a gust of wind blew it away…determined to deliver the tree she flew back to the North Pole to see Father Christmas to get the address.
she rushed to Father Christmas (who was extremely busy) holding the tree and started asking him for the address, Father Christmas explained that he was really busy, and couldn’t help, instead he suggested that she head to the correct city and go house to house to find one that didn’t have a tree!
The fairy agreed and carrying her heavy tree and flapping her wings she set off, but after hours of searching for a house without a tree, no house could be found, so she headed back to Father Christmas in the North Pole.
When she found Father Christmas she ran over to him clutching the tree, asking him to drop everything and find the address to deliver the tree too!
Again Father Christmas said he was too busy to help and suggested that she either give up or try flying around again, to see if she could find the house.
Off the fairy went, she was sad and cold… and flew across the city looking for the house to deliver her tree too! When it began to snow she couldn’t bear it anymore and went back to the North Pole to speak to Father Christmas, she again asked him for the address saying that by not helping her he would ruin Christmas for a family.
Cross as her pestering and rudeness her told the fairy she could… stick the tree right up her arse!
And that’s why we have a fairy on top of our Christmas tree!’
I as always have a star… although this year for fun we have a weeping angle from Dr Who!
But this joke is exactly why I can never have a fairy