Spanish Christmas tree

 This is a photo of our tree in Spain which I left behind including all the decorations. Wish now I had brought the decorations home. They were built up over many years and they will be hard to replace but it might be fun buying them. I remember I bought a lot of them in the January sales so I suppose it was a bit of a hodgepodge but it always looked good. This year I am sticking to red and gold but thinking next year to go for blue and silver. The main thing is I have the tree so I can go for whatever I fancy. Ken loves the tree and where I was thinking Christmas Day would be just another day maybe I can make it a bit special. In Spain there were parties on the run up and on the day we had people to dinner. Now with Ken’s health problems it will be just us but hopefully I can still make a effort.

Stage two

 So far I have added some red baubles but have some gold ones coming but not until next week so it will be slow progress. Wish now I had brought my decorations back from Spain each year the tree there was overloaded.

Christmas Tree

 Andy, Ken’s friend and our gardener took me to our local garden center to buy a Christmas tree so I bought this prelit tree. Andy erected it. I think it has all sorts of sequences to the lights but haven’t tried them yet.. I also bought some baubles which I will hang but will take time doing it. I am not sure I have it at the best angle for each layer and think the manufacturer could put slots so it could be shown to its best advantage, anyway so far this is the best I have come up with. 

I don’t feel a bit like Christmas but think I should make an effort for Ken. Last year we didn’t do anything, our first year for years that we weren’t in Spain where we always had a tree and friends to Christmas dinner.  This year I am making an effort I am not sure we will ever be able to create the excitement of Christmas past but at least we are making the effort. Ken loves the tree, he is in a lot of pain so has gone up to bed so I will start to decorate it so when he comes down tomorrow he will see it. I have ordered more baubles but they will take some time to come so it will be slow progress. I haven’t yet found something for top, in Spain we had a star. I am looking on line, when I was a child it was always a fairy doll but don’t want that, maybe an angel or another star.