Christmas Tree

Oh dear. We finallt have the tree up for Christmas after hours of moving furniture about and trying to work out how best to fit eveything in the living room without it looking like an exlposion in a junk shop.

Other Half came up with a very good idea which was to leave the tree undecorated for a day or so, so that Badger would hopefully not be too tempted to try and climb up it or worse, knock it over. So we duly did this and decorated it on Sunday, along with a few other things about the room. All dogs ignored the tree, brilliant we thought. We went to bed and still all dogs ignored the tree (well actually Badger sleeps in the kitchen to minimise any mischeif he can get himself into during the night). Monday morning came and again, all dogs ingnored the tree.

Until today.

I have had to rescue five baubles from the tree out of dogs mouths. Some are beyond repair, others have begun to make a different display along the mantlepiece where I can arrange them so that the chewed bits are to the wall and can't be seen.

It's like a treat tree now, the dogs just seem to wander past it, pluck a bauble they fancy off the tree and chew it. Where will it all end?

Luckily Other Half is working and probably wont notice the additions to the mantlepiece decorations but what's particularly annoying is they have chewed the decoration I made in England with my Mum while my Dad was in hospital getting a new knee. I spent ages pinning sequins into a model egg and tying it with ribbon which made a gorgeous sparkly bauble only for me to find it five minutes ago on the hearth rug, with most of the sequins expertly removed and layed all around it.

No dog will own up to having done the deed, all look as guilty and innocent as each other - but all know that I am mighty p***d off with them for this.

I will spend the rest of the afternoon in the living room writing cards and guarding the Christmas tree until I go to work. Hmmmppphhhh!