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Question...am I mad putting a tree up with a 15 month old who often has a glint in her eye???

I am aren't I?

Chocolate coins a good idea, i shall steal that if he feels deprived when The Truth About Calendars comes out

Bob yes

good for you I like mad people

now I could probably pick up a cheap picture one today now. How I wish the whole choclate thing hadn't started! I remember loving the pictures so much.

A few years ago I bought my dad one that had the great masters nativity pictures behind each door. I was horrified that he opened all the doors in one sitting. I got all teary when he told me. I was 30.

oh carry on with the randomness franny - makes me feel a little more normal.

at opening all the pictures

and excessive at the great masters calendar

buy me one Bee, I will treasure it and quiver with anticipation every morning before lovingly prising open another window

no I must go

I am going

I have gone

oh goodie...I can't go without my tree. I find it so peaceful reading in the evening with a lamp and christmas tree lights, all snuggled on the settee under a blanket.

Yes, Gibbon, bit do it anyway

100x - I do that, think I'm asking interesting questions and I get a withering look. Ours is on a horse but he looks a bit more like Gnadalf and is flanked by children in fat coats and sweet boots. He is trying to go up to the castle to see Jesus but these pesky children are waiting for a trick.

Franny - I think I haven't worn airtex since I paired it with gym knickers!

put all the breakable decs high up

ooh I have gone, I have

hmmm yes thought the same Franny

and thanks for another vote for yes there MrsC!

I can now blame you chaps when DH rolls his eyes at me after the 10th 'small child big tree' incident that is bound to occur

There will be trees countrywide with no decorations on the bottom half I reckon, with grubby babies yanking the branches.

I might have coloured lights this year - I am bored of tasteful white ones.

I think it's okay to say 'ooooh, we must be very careful of this' a lot and hope for the best. I go for awe and wonder every time, even when they were babies. It must be very tiring for my poor children.

Right am off to compose my best fake smile and practise saying 'it is a ship, except the tattoe didn't come off quite right so it's missing the mast. Okay? Now give me 50p and run along darling.'

Have a good day all. And wayhay to BBee for supporting her local bookshop. Oh yes. I go into ours, and its always empty and I think about the heaving cut-price tables in Waterstones around the corner.

We always has coloured growing up, they are pretty

Have a lovely day 100x

Ours closed a few months ago. The last independant book shop in the city.

There is a tiny paper sign on the window saying.

Bookmark 1990-2007

Oh how

I have to confess, I have wandered into waterstones at times

Oh, I'm always in there, and borders. Nowhere to support now

spend a lot on Amazin too

It's just so easy isn't it?

I best wake DD from her nap soon.

Wish me luck with the tree!

Have a lovely weekend all

Our lovely bookshop closed too...it used to have craft days & storytime & a nice lady who played the guitar & had giant lily pads on the ceiling...I miss it Now a sweet shop has taken it's place with a smoothie & milkshake bar upstairs

Gib...We've put up a tree each year & ds has never touched it & I have all my grandmothers glass baubles on it usually.She brought all her old concertina paper decorations for ds this time...I remember putting them up for her when I was a little one...We used to decorate her enormous triphid like cheese & rubber plants too

Dh is on his way home...I am going to insist that he looks after ds for an hour so that I can go for a walk,have been cooped in for five days and am going slightly indoorsy mad & am gasping for fresh air

avi......we have a lovely shop that sells a great selection of lovely glittery ones,I could get one today for you if you like?

Is coffee not allowed?!?

Oh my...mornings without coffee??

Jasmine tea just does not hit the spot for me at 6.30am

Good idea about the non-shatterable decorations avi, got some last year thankfully as DD was a few months and we thought ahead just need to make sure we leave the breakable ones off.

I was supposed to be going wasn't I?. DH playing with DD as he misses her so after not seeing her in the week.

I really am off now. Can't sit here procrastinating any longer.

Avi, we have Richard Sellmer Verlag ones from Germany. My mother roots them out in a little shop in Bath. It's worth trying bookshops too.