Putting up Christmas Decorations
This weekend we decided to put up our Christmas decorations, during this i realised there is a strict routine that we always follow, partly instilled in us from our childhood but some routines we just follow year after year without thought. Christmas decorations day for us is always the first Saturday in December, i really don’t know why, it’s just tradition. The first stage is to get the tree, we always go to the same place to buy one, always have the same old debate of whether it is “too bushy at the bottom”, “too sparse at the top” and sometime “Will it fit in the car”. Eventually we have the perfect tree which just about fits in the car as long as i don’t mind not being able to reach the gears or see anything other than the tree and maybe the odd glimpse of the road if I’m lucky. When we get it home i spend about an hour trying to get it in a bucket, wedged in with broken brick and gravel, during which time Mrs Dozza get frustrated that it’s taking far too long. The next stage is the tree lights, for some reason this always seems to be the mans job I’m not sure why but i guess it is because electricity is involved. On go the lights and my contribution to the tree is over (apart from the fairy/angel at the top because Mrs Dozza cant reach). At this point we each do our own bit of decorating, i put up the lights at the windows while Mrs Dozza decorates the tree, finally joining forces again to put the presents under the tree. After our hard days work we admire our decorations over a cup of tea and some cake or chocolate.
Some observations i have made:
- How come you always find a broken bauble in the bottom of the decorations box every year?
- The Christmas lights worked perfectly when you put them away last year, so how come they don’t work 1 year later when they haven’t been used?
- Everyone has childhood memories of their Dad/Grandad/Uncle spending hours trying to fix Christmas lights, but never succeeding.
- If you have a real Christmas tree you still find pine needles embedded in the carpet or under furniture for months after.
