Just decorated a 1.8m. Christmas tree in record time. Only now I'm not sure that 80 LEDs are enough. Ah, well, sod it. I'll only hafta rip all the baubles off to replace the lights anyway now .....
I don't even like Christmas very much, if we're being pathologically honest; it comes with too many unpleasant memories of things like family rows, with my Mum's parents arguing with my Dad's parents over the ancient history and geography of bygone Stoke-on-Trent -- streets in a city in the Midlands, for crying out loud, that have been knocked down and rebuilt at least once in the meantime which would set me off with my sister -- and the passing of two of my most favouritest pets (Penny the dog [?] in 1998 from old age and Chico the cat -- barely more than a kitten, really -- [?] in 2007 from a freak accident). Well, when I say "favourite", they've all been my favourites, really; everyone from Sweetheart, Smokey, Zippy, Bang, Scruff, Misty, Snowy, Argent, Chilli, Pie, Ghost, Stumpy and Little Fred, the gerbils, to Chloé the Wonder Dog, although none of them died at Christmas. Such is the hold the four-legged members of our families have over us .....
I'll freely admit to being a complete sucker for LEDs, though ..... Especially assorted colours, and especially animated ones ..... I've got a hundred colour-changing LED "cherry" lights in the front window, that are all independent and have slight timimg variations that cause them to drift gradually out of and back into sync with one another.
I'm also multi-stoned and needing bed .....