{"id":409,"date":"2013-12-21T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/2013\/12\/our-bare-and-wilted-2013-aussie-christmas-tree.html\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T20:58:00","slug":"our-bare-and-wilted-2013-aussie-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/staging\/8794\/2013\/12\/21\/our-bare-and-wilted-2013-aussie-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Our bare and wilted 2013 Aussie Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">A very nice Argentinian fellow blogger who now lives in Canada, asked for a picture of our Aussie Christmas tree for his &#8216;<i>Christmas around the world<\/i>&nbsp;post.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-1vja_3o_WbI\/UrXvcRUJ7RI\/AAAAAAAABWM\/qMnhVaqnJ5c\/s1600\/Christmas%2Baussie.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-1vja_3o_WbI\/UrXvcRUJ7RI\/AAAAAAAABWM\/qMnhVaqnJ5c\/s640\/Christmas%2Baussie.jpg?resize=484%2C640\" width=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">An Aussie Christmas &#8211; surfing and seafood<i style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Moi<\/i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">?&nbsp;<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Oh dear I thought.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">He, or we are going to regret this&#8230;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>We are not a good example of an Australian Christmas,&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>but may score highly on taking the relaxed approach to Chrissy&#8230;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b>The Tree&#8230;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Well anyone who knows us well, will know that I am still&nbsp;bereft of half our Christmas decorations, on account of the Australian Government Customs and Excise (Border Protection, as it&#8217;s now known) impounding them as illegal&nbsp;imports.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Nw5lqHliSKI\/UrXxJJgNGBI\/AAAAAAAABWY\/t1KAyMqHHiM\/s1600\/Xmas%2Bdecs.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Nw5lqHliSKI\/UrXxJJgNGBI\/AAAAAAAABWY\/t1KAyMqHHiM\/s640\/Xmas%2Bdecs.jpg?resize=640%2C492\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">We lost most of our European Christmas tree decorations on arrival&#8230; Made in China was OK!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Yes, it&#8217;s true! They refused almost anything that said &#8216;Christmas&#8217; on the box <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">as a threat to national security.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Anyone who is planning on moving to Australia in the foreseeable future, here&#8217;s some advice. You&#8217;re better off writing &#8216;<i>explosives&#8217;<\/i> or &#8216;<i>Mummy&#8217;s cocaine stash&#8217;<\/i>, on the carton, than the Ch word. I can tell you the jingle bell alarm rings big time, to any mention of Christmas.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>All the kids beautiful hand crafted Christmas gifts from Europe &#8211; binned for the crime of including a pine cone.&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-yZo_TRRf25g\/UrXxyDn-RuI\/AAAAAAAABWg\/lkVKsF4-ShE\/s1600\/xmas%2BCollage%2B2.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-yZo_TRRf25g\/UrXxyDn-RuI\/AAAAAAAABWg\/lkVKsF4-ShE\/s640\/xmas%2BCollage%2B2.jpg?resize=640%2C160\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Our tree decorations are a wonderful eclectic memory of people and places we have known<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The wooden stable nativity scene with moss on the roof and a hundred different wooden characters kings, donkeys and a baby Jesus. That&#8217;s right, a baby! Jettisoned into incineration&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">And the artificial Christmas tree &#8211; <i>poof!<\/i>&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\">Disappeared in a flash.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8ZfhP6P4CYs\/UrXyKH1GKNI\/AAAAAAAABWo\/bJsvYo0A0qs\/s1600\/Xmas%2BCollage.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-8ZfhP6P4CYs\/UrXyKH1GKNI\/AAAAAAAABWo\/bJsvYo0A0qs\/s640\/Xmas%2BCollage.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">One of the rare remaining kids decorations &#8211; the clothes peg reindeer!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I reckon our old tree looks lovely in some Australian Government Office somewhere. What are they? Santa&#8217;s Little Helpers? Look forgive my rant and rave, but clearly the hurt runs deep. I have not really forgiven them for any of this&#8230;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Although there is a slight concern that I may be being a bit harsh. I do suspect my DH, never a lover of as he calls them &#8216;<i>plastic<\/i>&#8216; Christmas trees, who hated my Aussie no sneezing, no wilting but very nice never-the-less artificial &#8216;save the environment&#8217; tree, may have done a deal&#8230; Collusion and collaboration at the highest level:<\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8216;<i><span style=\"color: red;\">Take the gorgeous Christmas tree for your office and while you&#8217;re at it help yourself to a couple of bottles of nice Beaujolais in carton number 62 and just let my golf clubs through. Sorry about the mud, got caught short on the fourteenth hole&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-zoeh2c0GTqc\/UrX0BXK54wI\/AAAAAAAABW0\/GAEYWYNR_Xk\/s1600\/Xmas%2Btree%2Bdog.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-zoeh2c0GTqc\/UrX0BXK54wI\/AAAAAAAABW0\/GAEYWYNR_Xk\/s640\/Xmas%2Btree%2Bdog.jpg?resize=396%2C640\" width=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">A massive tree arrived at our place this year!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We&#8217;re often away for Christmas and for the past two we&#8217;ve been overseas. Not even in Australia, no need to get a single Christmas decoration out.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">So this year it was a novelty when DH and son hauled back a humongous Christmas tree, as if to make up for all those trees we never had over the years.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I had to admit, it was a beauty, one to admire, until I started sneezing&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I now remember why I prefer the artificial trees; hay fever and the wilt!&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ly1MHhYPgNo\/UrX09YSOgSI\/AAAAAAAABW8\/E0PelimsiD0\/s1600\/Xmas%2Btree.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Ly1MHhYPgNo\/UrX09YSOgSI\/AAAAAAAABW8\/E0PelimsiD0\/s640\/Xmas%2Btree.jpg?resize=572%2C640\" width=\"572\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Argh&nbsp;&#8211; the smell of all that fresh pine&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s really no good. The first hot December day, which always comes before Christmas, the tree starts to drop it&#8217;s needles and look really sad&#8230; As happened last Thursday when temperatures in Melbourne reached 40 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit),&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">hotter elsewhere.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">So unlike in other families when dressing the tree is a family ritual and everyone gathers round to the <i>oohs<\/i> and <i>argh&#8217;s<\/i> as Christmas tree decorations and ornaments are unwrapped and placed with love on the tree&#8230; It went like this in our house.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b>Me to Kids:<\/b> Can you dress the tree for me?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b>Kids: <\/b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; What????<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b>Me to Kids:<\/b> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m doing a blog on our Christmas tree and I want it to look nice &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; for the rest of the world to see.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b>Kids:<\/b> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Do we have to?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">So here it is<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I probably can procrastinate and give excuses no longer.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I don&#8217;t think a drum roll is really necessary, not even a Christmas drum&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I give you our Aussie Christmas Tree, half decorated and already wilted<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><b>Happy Christmas!<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-jDlLJJ_tYrw\/UrVmZlAQObI\/AAAAAAAABVo\/Xz9JfN2Ixww\/s1600\/christmas%2Btree.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-jDlLJJ_tYrw\/UrVmZlAQObI\/AAAAAAAABVo\/Xz9JfN2Ixww\/s640\/christmas%2Btree.jpg?resize=370%2C640\" width=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Aussie Tree &#8211; December 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Wishing you all a wonderful festive season,&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">as we now call in it multi-cultural correct Melbourne&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Whereever you may be celebrating!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">With love&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Oh-oQFtQ0O0\/UgOB-H-ilaI\/AAAAAAAAAYs\/in7jh6iUMtc\/s595\/2013%25252011%25253A51%252520AM.jpg?ssl=1\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  style=\"text-align: left;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone\" height=\"91\" id=\"blogsy-1375961597672.1733\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Oh-oQFtQ0O0\/UgOB-H-ilaI\/AAAAAAAAAYs\/in7jh6iUMtc\/s500\/2013%25252011%25253A51%252520AM.jpg?resize=500%2C91&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">PS&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Thank you for taking the time to read my post,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I hope to visit your blog soon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I love reading all my comments and always take the time to reply.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">For those of you who are not on Google&nbsp;+,&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">the e-mail button on my blog sidebar reaches me with a private message.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I am linking this post to <b>Mosaic Monday<\/b> and <b>Wednesday around the World<\/b>. 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