Deck the halls
I got out of the house early (for me) on Saturday morning, to go to the local garden centre to buy a Christmas tree. And thus began a weekend of faffing about with a tree.
Freddy came with me, and we inspected the trees quickly, because it was pouring with rain. I noticed a woman checking trees with a tape-measure and thought “That’s a bit much, how difficult is it to eyeball something that’ll fit below your ceiling?” And anyway, they’re all tagged with the height-range, right? Well, I’m sure you can guess the rest of that bit of the story.
The garden centre was offering free delivery locally - one of the reasons we bought the tree there (the lock on my car-boot is stuck locked so bringing it home would have involved mucking about with the roof-rack and I couldn’t be bothered). They said it would be delivered “today, probably in about an hour”, so I went home and everyone rushed about to get the living-room tidied and move things to make room for it. And about six hours later, the tree was delivered.
And it was a few inches too tall.
So Scratchy brought out his mini-hacksaw (aw, cute) and cut off the top bit - which worked okay, because the rest of the tree is really bushy. Then we tried to fit it into the stand. And it wouldn’t fit, because of the funny shape of the bottom of the trunk.
Do not buy a Christmas tree which bears any resemblance to a hockey-stick.
So Scratchy attacked the bottom with his mini-hacksaw, which was a particularly unproductive method, but despite having boxes and boxes of tools in the garage, it seems we don’t own an ordinary saw. Or we didn’t, until Saturday, when Scratchy went to buy one because one of us was probably going to attack the other with the cute mini-hacksaw.
The tree eventually got put up and decorated by Sunday evening - although some of the ornaments still aren’t on it, because we ran out of hangers, and I’m not using bent paper-clips this time. But despite being not-quite-vertical, it does look good.
Now if only we could figure out a way to get the outdoor lights plugged in…
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*snigger* Enjoy the saw but remember to hide it next time you have a row about christmas trees ;-D Oh and enjoy the Ikea catalogue, I adore Ikea!!