When do you put up your Christmas Tree?

The tree wont go up until the first week in December, but I've just put the Christmas cake in the oven. 

"I've just put the Christmas cake in the oven. "

ours mixed today and will stand in the garage for a week to soak up the booze, we have to make 2, one with and one without nuts, one of our daughters has a nut allergy, means i get double whacks.

Tree now partially decorated with holly twigs, but outside on the patio, lots of rain over past couple of days so it is looking very splendid already.

Time to make an extra one Rufs.  Stir-Up Sunday is 21st November this year..... the traditional day for mixing the Christmas pudding....  Not sure if it means Christmas Cake as well as pudding!!

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David

No just a little tree in the front window. Don't know where we will be yet, suppose we must get down to planning the trip soon.

We did do that a few years ago and bought a real Christmas tree with roots in a pot which lives in the back garden during the year but comes round to the front of the house to be decorated with lights during Christmas. It has, surprisingly for me - I'm a terrible gardener, lasted well and even grown a bit.

btw I asked 'Alexa why am I not good with talking to women' - she replied 'this is Siri'

If it goes up it will be the week before Christmas day, then back down as soon as New Year is over.

I used to love Christmas when the kids were little but I can't be bothered with it these days.

 Not religious so forget that side of it. These days all the hype for months before just sickens me so much by the actual day I've had enough.

Last year suited me fine as we were all in lockdown. OH and me just had a nice lazy day, nice food when we were ready to eat, then a good film. Hoping this year we do the same.

Much the same here…like you the hype ad nauseam gets on my nerves. Whenever possible we go away to escape the worst of it. Even though other places celebrate Xmas, whether it be the Caribbean, Canary Islands or mainland Europe or it doesn’t seem to be so in-your-face, insincere, and cheesy. If you don’t speak the language so much the better! It’s Gibraltar for me this year which should be fairly low-key although the locals either side of the border do enjoy a lively Xmas Eve. No pointless Xmas tree at home, might stick a few lights up on the patio and that’ll be it - bah humbug, roll on 6 January!

This will be my family's first Christmas without our "big" tree.

When I moved here over 40 years ago I was given a tiny seedling that was not growing well, and planted it in the front garden next to the road. Each Christmas it got lights, and as it set of growing I had to join on another set of lights each year.  As children arrived it was part of their growing up - photographs of coming home from maternity, first day at school, new Scout uniform, Uni degree, setting off to get married - all had this ever growing tree as the background.

They all used to take part in the task of getting lights up the tree as it got bigger and bigger, helped by various pals who were much better than I at climbing trees. We eventually had to stop doing the whole tree and confine things to the lower branches, and this summer it's sixty foot height and lifting roots meant it had to be felled before it pulled up the services and the road surface.

Not sure what we will do from now but the lights will be going up on something!

Between 25 and 30 years ago, whilst out walking, we found a little Corsican Pine tree seedling in a Forestry Commission plantation that was just lying there. We took it home and planted it up. When it was about 10 years old we started putting a Christmas star on the top although we didn't go the whole hog with decorations. Each year it got the star on the top. Eventually, it became a climbing job which I did for many years until, when it got to about 50 feet and I'd had a heart attack, I was banned by her with more sense from the annual  climb, as easy as it was. Eventually at about 60 feet tall we reluctantly decided that it had better come down as it was now affecting the neighbours garden. I still miss it although with more daylight, plants in the garden are doing much better. 

I've now started growing oak trees from acorns !!  Anyone want an oak tree?

I have lots J2, all in boxes 2’x2’x2’ some are 5+ years old, I prune them at 6’ & keep them within bounds they’re like Bonsai’s 2.0😂

maritime pine

beech

oak

blue cedar

korean fir

norwegian maple

liquidamber

manchurian ash.