It's UP!

Well, in spite of my protests, as I said earlier, our tree is up and ensconced in the window. However you can see from this photo that the lights do have a little competition from the sky. Just to make it clear perhaps I should point out that there is no flying saucer up there, just a reflection in the window of a light in the living area! Sunsets like this may not arrive as regularly as the ones I viewed when I was looking out over Manila Bay (I used to like sitting on the balcony of a suite in the Euro-Nippon, until it burnt down, viewing the beautiful sunsets) but it is surprising how many days we get a sight like this to lift our spirits at the end of a long day.

However you can also see that probably the decoration is to our benefit alone and that from ground level the tree is probably hardly noticeable. Obviously the flashing lights will be visible, but the full glory will be seen only by us in the Condo. But so what, we are (or strictly, Alice is) doing the tree for our pleasure and it can certainly give us that.

Now we have that horrid problem of getting some presents together to put under the tree for opening after lunch on Christmas Day. I suspect that Alistair is going to be the one to benefit most from this exercise! (and I must try and remember to call him "George" as he prefers - at the tennis tournament that he was in yesterday I noticed that Alice and I were the only ones to call him Alistair!)