Aww look at all your beautiful trees, all pretty in your nicely decorated homes with enthused cats warming themselves by the fire....
...now to lower the tone.
Our tree: the secret to our tree is to collect 30 years worth of Christmas junk and throw it at the tree in a random order.
It definitely looks better with the lights turned off (that's my sister trying to stabilise the tree by levelling out its feet...)
Some very scary nativity scene my Dad bought in Brazil. Did I mention that we collect Christmas junk?
This is my father's idea of festive - decorating a 3' tall marble Venus De Milo with tinsel.
Cosmo, our ginger tom, wasn't impressed by the whole Christmas thing, so he went to sleep on the sofa. If you were every wondering how much Christmas junk you can pile on a cat before it wakes up, this is it:
Dad then showed him my birthday present to him, a set of 10 trout lights from the largest Christmas store in the world, in Frankenmuth, Michigan.
Cosmo was decidedly unimpressed at this point, and scattered baubles everywhere.
Nevertheless, I piled them back on AND added a festive hat.
He made a dash for the cat flap shortly afterwards.
