On Saturday, this one and I managed to fit a visit to the Christmas Tree festival in between piano and GB PE practices, following a Night at the Museum with very little sleep.
It was certainly worth it.
When we arrived at the Church, one of the most unique trees greeted us..
Before we had even made our way into the church, we had spotted the gift tree
...and the Abbey Community College tree which was filled with the dreams of the students.
The church looked stunning.
Of course, one of the first trees we had to visit was the GB tree. It wasn't hard to find as it was beside the GB window and sparkling with "whiter than white" lights. It was the brightest tree in the room (reminding all of the glare of freshly whitened GB guddies)
Bea was delighted to find her star
... but was somewhat put out by the nonsense of the glittery guddies at the base of the tree. Everyone knows that GB guddies are whiter than white!!! At least the toes were all pointing.
We stopped at the BB tree too, filled with little drummer-boys (their drumming muffled by the cotton on their cotton bud drumsticks)
The work and detail on the patchwork trees was incredible.
Truly a work of art!
As was the craft tree from the Church of the Good Shepherd where everything was knitted.
On a shepherd theme, we spent some time at the "Ewe Tree" from Mossgrove looking for Josie and Phoebe's creations (we didn't find them)
The Men's Only tree was very inventive....
...as was the carpenter's tree
...and the bowler's tree was just perfect
The Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer tree...
...and the worship dance trees had to be admired...
(although I wish someone had ironed that tablecloth!)
The Prayer tree, with a cross in the centre, was very effective...
One of my favourite trees was Mums + Tots Snowman.
...and the most popular with the young people was of course the McDonald's tree
Some trees broke your heart a little, like Heaven's Nursery
and the Refugee tree
The Friendship Clubs tree (in a wheelchair and decorated with bus passes and milk of magnesia bottles) certainly started a lot of conversations.
You can see it here beside the library's Knit and Natter tree.
All of the trees were beautiful and memorable.
But, as always, I have left the best to last. My favourite tree was...
the Bell Tree
