Christmas tree cheer

I was keen to go and buy our sapin – Christmas tree. I just love getting it decorated and enjoying having it in the house. We always buy it from the same place in a little village called Polisot. It’s usually packed with trees, but on this occasion they had almost sold out. Fortunately they had one the size we wanted, 2.8m. Brian grabbed it up, walked it over and proceeded to squeeze it into the car. It really only just fitted, along with a sawn log as a stand and a pile of pine branches to use around the house. The lady lets us take the branches for free, which I find so delightful.

We had moved the pew that normally sits in the salon into the hallway so that we had space for the tree to go there. It’s always fun trying to get it in the house, wondering whether this is the year we’ve finally bought one way too big!

We did need to cut the top of it to fit, which we’d told the lady selling it to us that we would need to do, and I think she thought ‘Why are they buying one so big?’ We always prefer to do it that way though, because we find the top 30cm or so are always a bit too stick-like.

With the tree in place ready to be decorated, and some classic Christmas songs playing, we thought a glass of bubbles was definitely in order.

It’s just magical decorating the tree at Christmas, it always brings me joy. Seeing all our beautiful decorations again that we have collected or been given over the years.

This year I’ve been collecting some crystals that have come from old chandeliers, I’ve repurposed them with some red string to hang from the tree, helping the little white lights glisten even more.

All it needs now is a few presents, I better start wrapping.