[Misc] Is your tree still up?

[Bozza]

Do you do the 12th night thing, or is it packed away (artificial) / dumped in the garden (real) already?

Ours is still up - looking forward to covering the house in needles when we try to get it out the house on Saturday. On the plus side, I'll be able to see more than half of the TV again. Really miss that right half of the screen.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I thought this was one of those innuendo threads!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Artificial, and still up until this weekend. I didn't put it up until 22nd Dec though.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Coming down this evening. And then the rat race begins again. Thanks for reminding me

 

[LlcoolJ]

Up!

 

[goldstone68]

Taking the decs down now, wife has gone out so I am having a tea break

 

[Leighgull]

Do you do the 12th night thing, or is it packed away (artificial) / dumped in the garden (real) already?

Ours is still up - looking forward to covering the house in needles when we try to get it out the house on Saturday. On the plus side, I'll be able to see more than half of the TV again. Really miss that right half of the screen.

I imagined that you would have a sumptuous lounging area with an enormous wall mounted cinematic TV...maybe even one with a curved screen. So this begs the question: do you:

A) have an enormous tree
B) have a tiny room
C) both
D) neither
E) place your tree deliberately to obscure the blonde woman on BBC breakfast

 

[maltaseagull]

No tree, but some lights and some other decorations.
All going back to the garage tomorrow.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Currently taking mine down and ridding the house of cards, ornaments and tinsel.

It's the New Year, the 'Festive Season' is very much over, and everything comes down on the 1st or 2nd in our house. Goodbye Christmas for another year.

My tree is an expensive and good quality fake. I've never supported growing a tree to chop it down and throw it away just for decorative purposes. Someone once bought me a little Christmas Tree in a pot (about 7 or 8 inches tall) a few years ago. They were like "yeah, just throw it in the bin after Christmas.."

It's now in my back garden, about 2 foot tall and growing healthily. When it's big enough, I'll decorate it with lights at Christmas - outside.

 

[LlcoolJ]

To be fair I'm supposed to be taking everything down as the Mrs is back at work today. But I'm loathe to let go (and am in the pub instead) so it'll have to wait until tomorrow. Or Friday.

What day is it again?

 

[Nixonator]

12th night

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[studio150]

All down

 

[Beach Hut]

Down, Mrs Hut decided Christmas finished yesterday

 

[Bozza]

I imagined that you would have a sumptuous lounging area with an enormous wall mounted cinematic TV...maybe even one with a curved screen. So this begs the question: do you:

A) have an enormous tree
B) have a tiny room
C) both
D) neither
E) place your tree deliberately to obscure the blonde woman on BBC breakfast

The tree is about 7 feet but very broad. There's no obvious place to put the thing and we make this mistake every year - the tree always looks "not too big" until we get it into the house, and the least bad place to put it is alongside the sofa on which I tend to spend most of my time.

We're also not big TV people, nor BIG TV people. We only have one in the house, and it's a relatively modest by modern standards 40" (I think).

 

[AmexRuislip]

Down, Mrs Hut decided Christmas finished yesterday

I do believe that's you told

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Just read this on the Guardian website. All sounds a bit severe to me... plus - what will the pancakes taste like covered in acrid burning plastic smoke?!!

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"Before I get caught out again, when exactly is Twelfth Night? Must I take my Christmas decorations down before it, during it or not until after it? What happens to me if I get it wrong?

YOU MUST take your decorations down by Twelfth Night (which you will recognize by the fact that your true love will have sent you twelve whatevers doing something-or-other). Otherwise, you must leave your decorations up till Shrove Tuesday, when you take them down, burn them, and cook your pancakes over their flames.

David Lewin,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon (jdl@hepax6.rl.ac.uk)"

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[Reagulls]

When I bought my tree in the garden centre the cashier asked " are you putting it up yourself? "
"No" I replied "I'm putting it in my lounge"

 

[Guinness Boy]

Mine's up. It should be down but I have that particular duty and I can't put much weight on my right foot or stand still for more than a few minutes. I suspect we'll put it away at the weekend. Normally down on 2 Jan though.

 

[Magic Sponge]

Real one, will be taking it down on Saturday.