Flutterbymama

It’s Christmas!

I just have to share an image, or few, of our new Christmas tree! It’s just so fab. We ordered it back in September from a visit to the local park. Our park is great because it has a small courtyard which houses small craft companies as well as the usual park kind of stuff. We have bought a small number of items from this little wood craft shop in the past and we always have a wander in whenever we get to that side of the park. John, the owner, is a lovely man and a very creative craftsman. We saw a rather large version of our tree hanging in his shop and just decided we had to order one. The cost was more than a ‘real’ tree but for the past few years we have had living trees. They are delivered to your door in a pot and collected in the New Year to live out the year till the following Xmas, when it may well go off to another foster family. I loved the idea that, even though they were expensive for the relatively small size, they weren’t being chopped down to die and then get thrown in a skip. I’ve only ever had 4 of the type that you pick up and get rid of after Christmas and always felt a pang of guilt. So, now we have a tree made from driftwood found locally on beaches that we can take down and put up again every year until it totally falls apart, which I hope, is in many years to come!