Christmas time is here

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Although Nottingham has been decked out for Christmas for the last month, we just put our tree and decorations up on Tuesday. We found we had an abundance of decorations in the storage closet in the bathroom and spent a good hour and a half listening to various Christmas music, eating chocolate, and decorating. We now have one large Christmas tree in the living room and one in the hallway. We also have two small Christmas trees, one very Charlie Brown like, in the living room and one in the kitchen. While decorating we also found reindeer antlers, a Santa hat, and angel wings. These were combined with various decorations as costumes. I spent a chunk of time untangling star garland and ended up just taking a scissors to the knot and making one long strand two shorter ones. Our flat now is a Christmas explosion, and we didn't even use all the decorations.

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Photos

Opening the chocolate
Andrea and Kia preparing to open the tin of chocolates

Christmas Angel
Siri, our Christmas angel, and Kate

Taking out the tree
Kia taking out the tree

Decorations!
Andrea dressed for the season

Untangling the lights
Kia and I working at the lights

Untangling the lights
Still at it

Putting up the tree
Kate putting up the tree in the hall

Start decorating!
Andrea, Siri, and Joy ready to start decorating the living room tree

Angels and Demons?
Kia and Siri

Storm's Stocking
Carrie trying on Storm's stocking

O Christmas Tree
The Christmas tree in the hall - complete with red star garland

All done!
The living room