LINDA MITCHELMORE

At the beginning of December every year, with Christmas just around the corner, I started to hate my father. He was a right old meanie because he refused to decorate the house, or even let us put up a Christmas card, until my brother and I had gone to bed on Christmas Eve. Even the tree had to sit out in the back yard in a bucket of mud, undecorated. But …….come Christmas morning I got up to Wonderland. It was like stepping into Santa’s Grotto x 100. There would be streamers on the landing, all the way down the stairs, through the hall, the dining room, the kitchen, and on into the sitting room. The tree, loaded with at least three sets of lights, took pride of place to the right of the fireplace. Oh, how I loved my father then for making this magic for us yet again. And this is something I did for my children, and now my daughter is doing the same for her children. Only last Saturday my grandson, Alex, said, ‘Mummy’s a meanie. She won’t put up any decorations.’ So I hugged him and said, ‘She will. You wait…..you wait….’

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