oh Christmas Tree
Oh dear The Rockefeller Christmas Tree in New York has been erected under beautiful blue winter skies and for some strange reason its a balding and somewhat raggedy affair. Perhaps it’s a metaphor for 2020 Who knows . I remember as a child having such a tree. Bought as an afterthought from the greengrocer on Meliden Road, it was bald and patchy and ever so sad looking, but to my sister and I who bought it, it was an underdog who had to be made the best of. Bottom branches were literally sellotaped into place. The gaps were filled with fairy lights and thick snakes of tinsel and if you squinted long enough the whole finished article looked cheerful enough Like I said as long as you squinted. Christmas trees mean different things to different people and we all have our own connections to them. For me it’s Shelley Winters and the cast of The Poseidon Adventure climbing up that impossibly blue 18 foot monstrosity in my 1970s childhood but this memory ha...