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oldbloke at 12:03am on 02/12/2007
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To last January, when we bought some new christmas tree lights in the sales, and I posted about wondering how big a tree was needed for 120 lights.
We never did get a new tree. Forgot all about it.
Consequently, after putting it all up today, the tree looks just slightly busy. It's only 4 feet including the stand. 120 is a lot of lights for something that size.
And they have 8 different programs! Apart from "continuous" and maybe slo-glo they're all unbearably chav, though.
There may be pics sometime, if I can work out how to make the lights look bright without the tree being black on a black background.
We also got some stars to put up in the window, coz Lidl had them and we were in a silly mood.
5 vertical drops each with 5 small stars and a big one at the bottom. Each small star has a light in it, and the big ones have 15 lights inside them. It's a lot better than it sounds, really.
Tomorrow (oops, today, now) Jack has to write to Father Christmas to ask for a Barbie Race. The Polly Pocket/Hot Wheels "Race to the mall" set is already upstairs, but he doesn't know that. It's very pink, but it's cars. And ISTR him saying at one point that only boys could play with it. This despite the TV ad clearly showing two girls playing with it. The child is weird, but lovely. Mostly lovely.
We never did get a new tree. Forgot all about it.
Consequently, after putting it all up today, the tree looks just slightly busy. It's only 4 feet including the stand. 120 is a lot of lights for something that size.
And they have 8 different programs! Apart from "continuous" and maybe slo-glo they're all unbearably chav, though.
There may be pics sometime, if I can work out how to make the lights look bright without the tree being black on a black background.
We also got some stars to put up in the window, coz Lidl had them and we were in a silly mood.
5 vertical drops each with 5 small stars and a big one at the bottom. Each small star has a light in it, and the big ones have 15 lights inside them. It's a lot better than it sounds, really.
Tomorrow (oops, today, now) Jack has to write to Father Christmas to ask for a Barbie Race. The Polly Pocket/Hot Wheels "Race to the mall" set is already upstairs, but he doesn't know that. It's very pink, but it's cars. And ISTR him saying at one point that only boys could play with it. This despite the TV ad clearly showing two girls playing with it. The child is weird, but lovely. Mostly lovely.
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