After a lovely day spent feeling Christmassy and wandering around Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park with the rents, guzzling red wine and soaking up the atmosphere I was all set and ready for The Tardis Christmas decorating session that is scheduled for this evening.
It was my job to hunt down a Christmas tree and get some decorations ready for this evening. Originally I thought that this would be a pretty easy task... go to Asda where they will have everything I need.
How wrong I was.
The Christmas aisles of Asda were in complete carnage. You could picture the sights before my arrival of people warring over decorations, Christmas trees and lights. All that remained was the debris from this battle that I had quite clearly missed. Which meant, to my dismay, that there were no Christmas trees, bar some ugly black ones, and only a very minimal selection of decorations.
Immediately I text the girls to brief them on the situation, but did not give up on my mission straight away. So I trundled off to try my luck on the high street.
Lidle
M&S
Debenhams
All tried to no avail.
And then, who should rescue me but a good old discounter shop. And all these nasty supermarkets are causing them to die out. Well at least they managed to still have a steady flow of trees, lights and all things sparkly.
If the supermarkets are going to try and fend these little guys out, they better sort out their stock levels that's all I'm going to say. AND it was sooo much cheaper. A 5ft tree for £12 ... I should've got two really for that price. I have yet to open the box, so we'll see what it looks like when it's all up, but thank goodness they were there to save our house from any tears.
Watch this space... decorating commences tonight. I'm armed with a couple of bottles of mulled wine.
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