I spent the day up to my elbows in Christmas Trees. I have been volunteering for the Caring Christmas Trees project over the last couple of years and today was my first session. It’s a great project with all the profits going to a winter shelter for homeless people providing hot meals and a safe, warm place to sleep over the winter months.
First job: get out of bed! A big ask this morning as I was a little ‘tender’ after having a great time with our friends having a Christmas meal and a few wee drinkies.
Then off to the site to unload 127 Normand Fir trees out of a Bedford truck, coun
t them all and set them up for display. The other volunteers and I greeted a steady stream of folks picking up their trees and we unwrapped and wrapped a bunch for our discerning customers to make sure they were getting what they wanted. Michelle came along to pick our tree (as I “would have picked the wrong one”) which was generally the story of the day for the gentlemen picking trees.
After my stint I brought our tree home and Michelle and mum helped decorate it. I love putting up our Christmas tree. Mish and I have collected a number of ornaments over the years that remind us of our friends, families and the things we love. We have ornaments ranging from home-made decorations from our first tree that we made out of paper when we were skint to my favourite; Boba Fett.
As I type this Mr Potato Head is surveying the living-room from his perch at the top of our tree. It’s become a tradition for him to be up there in place of a star or a fairy.
There are some photos over at our flickr site.
