Christmas tree, Oh, Christmas tree! How lovely were your branches!

Our Christmas tree had served us well and managed to survive 5 weeks of our children running past it and poking it but it was looking very tired and droopy so we decided to put it out of its misery a couple of days early. Although our council will collect and recycle the old trees, Neil decided making use of his chiminea would be much more fun. So I went for a 'nanna nap' (sleeping at night is not a top priority for the 3 children in our house!) and had to be woken up to see the last of our tree branches being devoured by flames. No wonder all the needles had been falling off it - it really was bone dry.