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Dismantling Christmas
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Why does a naked Christmas tree only look creepy after you've removed the lights?
What do you do about cards from people who really meant it? It seems disrespectful to chuck them .
What message for next year would you leave yourself in the decoration box?
@ roast dinner with sprouts! "
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In London. Keen but lazy.
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No sprouts here! Possum and I detest them. OH buys himself some every Xmas and then forgets them.
As for decs next year - more fairy lights on the tree and more fairy lights in general.
I'm not keen but they're only little concentrated cabbages. Too much of a good thing?
No. Different flavour, much more sulphuric and bitter. Love cabbage though as long as it's not fermented kimchi or sauerkraut!
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Boiled bacon, pointy or Savoy cabbage, waxy potatoes and butter -nectar!
Thought I was the only one who left messages for themselves in the decoration box
Mine are usually to do with how many crackers/christmas cards are left over from last year and where I have hidden the multi gang extension lead 
Love sprouts, halved lightly steamed butter salt and pepper would have them with every meal. The trees (two of them) went back in the boxes Monday and I ask why do they never fit back fully, there is always a bit stuck out. Cards go out after my Daughter opened a bedside cupboard and many years cards fell out, they were black bagged and disposed off. The extension lead and decorations now go in there with room for my Birthday cards (do not tell Daughter).
Had a house full yesterday including George one and a half years old, he had all the old toys out and loved it then went to sleep standing up with his head on my knee, that is what Christmas is about the future. My written promise is to get that Telegram from the Queen, a few years to go and it could well be King Charles, I thought that was a Spaniel? We should have Robot Gardeners, automatic double diggers, Lawn flatteners and weed zappers, what will there be for us old hands to do I ask.
Frank.
sprouts from the garden lightly steamed, halved, then stirred up with fried bacon and chestnuts - yum
sprouts from the shop - having been cut days before and all the sugars gone just that horrible bitter taste left - not under any circumstances, thank you
I burned the Christmas holly on New Year's Day, in accordance with family tradition. I slowly take the decs down, leaving the lights til last on twelfth night.
This year I cut a load of flowers in mid-summer to dry so I'd have something to replace the Christmas decorations with and they are looking great
No messages to my future self this year - I don't seem able to see very far ahead at the moment - maybe things will be clearer by then.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I used to grow a few sprout plants for OH so he'd have fresh and organic and I still didn't like the flavour. However, we discovered flower sprouts a couple of years ago and they're lovely. Got some growing at the mo and now we've had some rain they should do well - if they haven't been flattened by the gales.
Once the decs are down I like the fresh, clean look but I will no doubt be thinking of flowers or some such for Easter. Used to do an Easter "tree" for Possum when she was little - branches from the garden spring prunings hung with little eggs and some bunnies.
That's a great idea DR - for those with the patience and artistic talent
Mum used to recycle Christmas cards into wallets to keep receipts, or what have you (just sellotape up the side and the bottom - not too time consuming) if she especially liked the card or the sender. Or you can do a less creative version of Mrs DR's approach and make next year's gift labels by cutting bits out of this year's cards, making a hole and adding string - a good job for bored children at the weekend
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”