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...It's Twelth Night, so the decorations are down, the tree is dismantled and it's all boxed up and back in teh spare room for next year - carefully wound round cardboard tubes to make sure they unravel easily in December.
Gawd, but the house looks bare and dull!
Mind you, it was harder to do this year. It was bad enough decorating the tree with the assistance of a cat - baubles appearing to grow claws and attempt to commit suicide when you hang them - but to have a Christmas tree attack you when you try to take it's decorations away is somewhat disturbing! 
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I will be looking for a 8' pre lit fake tree in the sales. So much easier to deal with than a real tree, and not have to walk round and round putting on the strings of lights.
We had a 6' pre lit tree this year that is borrowed from my mum, but it looks a tad small in a 10' bay window....
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10' ceilings? I remember them from when I was a kid (we living in a large Victorian house that had been broken up into flats, so tall ceilings were all we got outside us kids bedrooms) By heck it must be expensive to heat in Aberdeen! I remember we only heated the one room in winter because it was hard enough to heat that one, never mind the rest and that was in Surrey!
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Yeh it is a bloody nightmare trying to keep the place warm. Gas bill is fightening!
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DaveAuld wrote: Gas bill is fightening!
Is that because it launches itself from the envelope, and goes straight for your throat? 
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Sounds familiar. I own a 140-year-old barn of a place. My gas bill in January and February is usually in the $400 range.
Software Zen: delete this;
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...It's Twelth Night...
Where is the f ?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Where the f do you think?
(I'd run out of "F"'s and had to nip out to the shops to get another bag  )
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OriginalGriff wrote: (I'd run out of "F"'s and had to nip out to the shops to get another bag )
Should have given me a call, I have bucket loads of f's just falling all over the place.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I'll bear it in mind for next time - but the import duties on Foreign Alphabets may make it impractical, unless you can also supply 'Ll' and 'dd' characters to convince the rozzers it's Welsh after all... 
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I just figured you didn't give an F.
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We used to have problems with the cats removing all the baubles from the tree and batting them around the house. At first we just put cheap ones on the bottom and replaced them when they were destroyed, but then I discovered that a well-placed bag of cinnamon pine cones made them avoid the area around the Christmas tree. Results may vary, since some cats probably don't mind cinnamon no matter how strong it is.
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Good idea - it's got to be worth trying next year. I am rather fed up of standing on baubles in the dark...
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As I mentioned in reply to Dave's Creme Egg query above, the Bible forbids bringing trees inside, giving you a handy reason to avoid this hassle next year.
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The Bible forbids many things, most of which it then goes on to do with great relish.
It also recommends the tearing apart of children with bears for calling a slaphead a slaphead, so I won't use it as a source of recommendations with Herself. (She is quite fond of children for some strange reason) 
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