Let's
start the Christmas decorating
Quite
frankly We don't do a lot of decorating. Mike puts up a string of
lights outside and is in charge of that. I get to do the inside
decorating for Christmas.
In
England I remember we didn't do outside decorating but that maybe
because it was soon after the war and everything was scarce and
expensive. I remember we made paper chains , circles of colored paper
linked together and we would link them from all corners of the room
to the middle light and think that was great.
Today
I don't do much better. I have a few things that I have collected
over the years and I find it lovely to bring those out and remember.
In
England we would bring in holly and ivy and hang mistletoe branches
but here the holly and ivy stays outside to feed the birds with the
bright berries and the mistletoe grows high up in the trees and it
really a curse as it will kill the tree.
So
instead of that kind of greenery I use my house plants. One year I
bought a some beautiful red silk poinsettia flowers and I use them
each year to decorate. It gives a nice effect.
I
usually buy a real poinsettia too but it never seems to lasts to the
next year.
