Reply to: Who's putting their xmas tree up this weekend?

[Lockhouse]

Getting the tree and the deccies out the cellar next Saturday according to the missus.

[norrahe]

Bit tricky if they are flying.

Not sure how much excess I would get charged for a 6 footer

Spotted one on the John Lewis website for £180, have had a look round the shops in cloggers and haven't seen anything that isn't cheap tacky, and wouldn't last 5 mins with the NorPusses. The Cloogies do like their "goedkoope" aka cheap tat.

[Sysman]

Homebase about 3 years ago, for a couple of hundred quid or something.

I imagine one can buy them online, but anyway aren't you visiting Blighty for a week or too before Christmas?

Bit tricky if they are flying.

[Sysman]

I have a live one in the conservatory & the black fake one in the games room, neither will be going up this weekend. Maybe next Sunday.

Agreed.

Second weekend of December here.

It's a tradition going back to when I was a nipper.

[darmstadt]

I have a small metal one and thats it but we go to the inlaws who put one up on Christmas Eve (actually the day you give presents here.) A German invention (more like tradition actually) along with the giving of presents at Christmas...

[Pogle]

Our tree will be sourced next Saturday, we've been getting our trees from the same place for the last 20 years. The its off into Manchester for the Christmas markets, signalling the start of the festive season at Pogle acres.

[mudskipper]

Sounds like fun

We always take our decos down on the 1st as its youngests ones birthday and we want it to be her birthday not a hangover from Christmas.

My youngest's birthday is 24th. He always thought it was quite cool that the house was all decorated for his birthday. Just as well really!

[BrilloPad]

Mrs BP got it up this morning.

While I took baby bp to Gambados.

[OwlHoot]

Where did you get it and do they deliver to cloggers?

Homebase about 3 years ago, for a couple of hundred quid or something.

I imagine one can buy them online, but anyway aren't you visiting Blighty for a week or too before Christmas?

[cailin maith]

Ye gods, I despair when I see trees and decorations up weeks before the damn day.

Put it up the weekend before Christmas (at the earliest).

Bah Humbug!!!

Ok Scrooge.

[TykeMerc]

Ye gods, I despair when I see trees and decorations up weeks before the damn day.

Put it up the weekend before Christmas (at the earliest).

Bah Humbug!!!

[psychocandy]

£185 my xmas tree cost. Bit much I thought. Its a bloddy plastic tree at the end of the day !!!

[cailin maith]

Sounds like fun

We always take our decos down on the 1st as its youngests ones birthday and we want it to be her birthday not a hangover from Christmas.

Yeah, I know what you mean, it's better for her to have a proper b-day than it lumped in with Christmas.

[stek]

Who's putting their xmas tree up this weekend?

In Soviet family we can have the decs up till March or summert, but as I am the archetypal Scrooge I've usually done an Arthur Fowler by New Year (Noviy God)...

Did you know Russian for God is 'Bog' - no wonder they went all aetheist...

[FiveTimes]

It's Jr's first bday tomorrow - I still cannot believe its been a year!!

Soooooo, maybe when the birthday paraphenalia is down, I'll convice himself to get the decorations out. We've a plastic tree which I think is grand and he hates. I suspect this year, I'll spend most of my time trying to stop Jr from either pulling it down or trying to eat it. Fun times eh?

Sounds like fun

We always take our decos down on the 1st as its youngests ones birthday and we want it to be her birthday not a hangover from Christmas.