Christmas Tree

So its been a couple of weeks since I last posted up here. Life has been moving forward as always and finding time to post has been a little difficult. Partly due to real life getting in the way and partly due to the fact that I have been busy over on one of my other blogs, as there has been a lot happening on that front.

Anyway, I've got a lot of posts currently sitting in the draft folder, enough to keep me going until the New Year, provided that I can actually find time to post that is! Hopefully I'll get some time over the next week of two to get things written up and scheduled but time will tell, especially as there is quite a bit of bad weather up here at the moment and the schools have been closed a few days, meaning that I have two little ones to try and keep entertained when nothing is open and you can go and play outside!

One thing we have got done though is the Christmas Tree. We actually put this up way back on the 4th, as my wife was away south on the 1st at a conference in the capitol. I am one of those people who firmly believes that Christmas starts on the 1st of December and that's when the tree and decorations go up, no earlier, even if its a weekend the day before. It has done my head in this year that the local supermarket had there Christmas stuff out on the shelves BEFORE Halloween! I mean, they had to move the Christmas stuff to put out all the Halloween costumes! Really? Next thing you know, they'll just leave them out all year round, to save having to take them down after Christmas and put them back out in Feburary! Anyway, rant over, here's some pictures of out tree this year:

Two stars on the top, one for the little man and one for the young lady, mostly to stop them arguing over who's star went on top.

Sitting in the corner of the room. Most of the decorations that you can see on the tree have been made by the bairns at one point of another and I have no doubt that they will be joined by many more over the next couple of years.

Lights. And no, they don't just go halfway up. The top set are multifunction lights and are actually flashing, I just seemed to have managed to capture the photo just as they all flashed off!

Tried again later and still failed!

The cats have taken quite a liking to the tree or rather the baubles on the bottom of the tree. The bairns think that this is great fun, I just keep wondering if they could possibly pull the tree over!