Deck the halls

This is a companion piece to a similarly-themed article on Pete’s site, which, all things being equal, should be published at roughly the same time.

This year, our halls have been decked in a minimal fashion, with a few tattered old strips of tinsel on top of pictures and bookcases, and a 12″ artificial tree on the dining table, well out of reach. This is because we know that a toddler will be even worse than a cat, when it comes to removing baubles from a tree, treading pine needles around the place, etc. In my Scroogeish kind of way, I rather like it; I have been a big fan of subtle christmas decorations for quite some time, but the only time in my life that I achieved the look I wanted was the Christmas when I was living on my own in Malvern – None of this sort of nonsense for me.

Pete likes Christmas decorations to be BIG and INYOURFACE, just in case you overlook the festive season because the lights are not sparkling enough and the tree is not tall enough. In fact, one of the first blog posts that I read on TITGIG was a picture of his Christmas tree (the year before my minimal Malvern twig). Obviously it didn’t put me off him, as he is now the father of my child.

I’m glad we don’t have christmas lights this year, but this is one issue where I really do feel like a very small drop in the ocean. All our neighbours have lights on the outside of their houses, and some of them look quite pretty, but it does seem terribly wasteful. I hate waste. And coloured lights for no reason are wasteful, there’s no two ways around it.

Next week’s Stuntpost will be on the subject of what we want for Christmas – look out for it on Monday.