It’s our new little wicker Christmas tree!

I also have a little cardboard cutout Victorian tree, but this new tree is quite a bit bigger and perhaps with some eensy lights and a bit of tinsel (though it does have silver sparkles all over it already) it could end up looking rather festive.

You see, for years I’ve never been able to have a proper Christmas tree because of the cats. Instead I’ve put little white fairy lights around the balcony doors, put out my cardboard tree on the table and hung up a few bobbles here and there. But this year Nog & I decided we would look for some sort of Christmas tree that would be ‘cat proof’ and I think this one might work out quite nicely. It’s about 50cm tall and there is space on the wee table to put a gifty or two on Christmas eve, yet there is nothing dangly and tempting to interest the cats. I actually like it as it is, but Nog thinks it needs a bit of tarting up, so we’ll see what we can find.

So … just back from the first Sunday Shopping Sunday in December (in Spain Sunday shopping is only allowed in December and one Sunday each when winter and summer sales begin) . AND IT WERE HELL. All the stores had their heating turned up to maximum even though it was a balmy 18ºC outside, and then there were multitudes of screaming kidlets everywhere . . . gaaaaaaah!!! So after finding the tree and doing a bit of other basic shopping we stopped in at Ay Maricrú! for some much needed refreshment before heading home.

For those of you who don’t know about the issues concerning cats and Christmas trees, check out CUTE with Christmas.