…... Or face the wrath of the Bad Fairy!! Yes it’s December and that means Christmas (no grumbling at the back there please!). Wednesday saw me being chauffeured to the hospital, nothing exciting just some Bonio meds (Bisphosphonates) and I couldn’t believe how many houses had their Christmas trees set up in their front windows. Now call me a scrooge if you must but isn't it a bit early? Particularly when you think of the disastrous consequences of having a Christmas tree up in a “normal” household for about four weeks. Cats ….cats just can’t help tinkering with the baubles. Nothing wrong with that expect when the baubles part company with the tree and are only discovered on a dark and chilly stagger to the loo in the early hours of the morning! Dogs …that chase tails always seem to crash into the recently decorated tree. All of that hard work making the tree look like it should be photographed for “Homes and Gardens” and now it would look quite at home on the cover of a “Scrapheap Challenge” magazine! You can’t put chocolates on the tree either. Well I suppose you could if you had well behaved dogs. Three Labradors that can smell food anywhere within five miles of their nose ends and chocolates are a definite no no. For the house proud among us (I’m allergic to house work so exclude myself from this), doesn’t a Christmas tree gather lots of dust? Do you vacuum it or swish a feather duster through its branches occasionally? Finally, the wrath of the Bad Fairy. If you’re in the treetop club that puts a fairy on top of your tree, please, this year, take particular care how you place her on that little branch. Rumours on the fairy grapevine are hinting at a revolt. Now you don’t want to come downstairs and find a bad fairy stomping on your baubles in her Dr. Martens do you? So ….nice and gently does it!!! Bad Fairy x
