Isn't that the tree that Norway gift us every year as thanks for our support during the Second World War?
I expect it'll shape up once it's up properly. It'll have been on a flat bed truck for about a week.
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Isn't that the tree that Norway gift us every year as thanks for our support during the Second World War?
I expect it'll shape up once it's up properly. It'll have been on a flat bed truck for about a week.
Saw this monstrosity at Waterloo today. Kate Spade sponsored 
dolphins
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I actually quite like the Churchill Square one in the "flesh". Was at St Pancras earlier today and this is what they have:
I wonder if it has spikes that pop up at 11pm to stop people sleeping on it
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The most curious thing..
That appears to be a pile of random boxes retrieved from Lost Property and piled on top of each other.
Van Cleef
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Very poor. Norway need to up their game if they want us to help out with any future wars.
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Things always do in the darkLooks fine now
And after a BRANCH TRANSPLANT
‘Send it back’: Londoners react to lacklustre Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square
‘Meh’ one Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree hater posted
www.independent.co.uk
I am outraged if they're putting up a Christmas "tree" at Waterloo based on a GWR engine. The LSWR would be spinning in it's grave.I quite like it - in this setting, it reminds me of Victorian era railways industry with the dark ‘railway’ green and gold of that period used on steam trains and in stations. Sort of reminiscent of a beautiful old GWR steam engine with its square and round shapes and tall steam spout. Maybe looks worse irl though
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Everything's a culture war nowadays isn't it.Things always do in the dark
And after a BRANCH TRANSPLANT
‘Send it back’: Londoners react to lacklustre Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square
‘Meh’ one Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree hater posted
We can't even have a nice tree sent to us by a friendly country without people mithering about it.
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Seriously- it was half dead on one side - it looks better because they have literally attached additional branches to it.
Nothing to do with culture wars - I haven’t even mentioned the Country it was from - that’s fcuk all to do with the fact the tree looked like shite when it was being assembled - now it doesn’t- job done
I wasn't being entirely serious.Seriously- it was half dead on one side - it looks better because they have literally attached additional branches to it.
Nothing to do with culture wars - I haven’t even mentioned the Country it was from - that’s fcuk all to do with the fact the tree looked like shite when it was being assembled - now it doesn’t- job done
I expect that all trees that size in public squares have branches hammered into them to make them look half decent, I can't imagine there's a sensible way of transporting a tree from northern Norway to London (or any similar distance) that wouldn't either completely flatten it on one side or require branches to be cut off.
Somebody probably just happened to stick a photo of it going up on twitter a few years ago and now every year a load of people moan about the tree.
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Ah, mithering. Not a word I'd ever heard of, before moving up north(ish).
I must admit I like it, and enjoy saying it when the occasion fits...
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No worries.
I guess it does seem a bit ungrateful but poor tree did look a little sad - glad it has some prosthetic limbs now though - it looks much happier
,Mithering?!’
Strictly speaking, I know it from this Fall song rather than living up north (I think it's more a north west thing)