Self-dismantling Christmas Tree

Today as the day that our merry gang of volunteers gathered to bring down the Christmas lights in our town. We last gathered in November to put them up and they were switched on on Friday 29th November.

Within a week, this tree had decided that it had had enough of Christmas and had keeled over. Never fear, a few of us reconvened and discovered that one of the supporting legs had snapped in the high winds. So the tree was set up again and propped up in a way that would ensure that it would stay up in any conditions.

However, as you can see, it had decided once again that it was happy to lie down on the job. In fairness, it has been like this since Christmas Eve as the high winds whipped up again and we just cannot compete with nature on this. We gave in and decided that we might as week just let the tree have an early rest but today was the day that it was being formally retired.

Just as well that we have a restraining wire to prevent it coming over the edge of the wall as this sits on a flat roof overlooking the market square above what was once a bank.

Despite the original forecast of heavy rain today, we managed to take down all the lights in the sunshine. So or official Christmas celebration is complete for another ten months. Yes ten - we need to start putting the lights up again at the end of October/beginning of November as we are reliant on volunteers giving up time on Sunday mornings when the market square is quiet.