No, I don't mean R & B as in Rhythm & Blues, I mean R & P as in Roam & Plunder. For next month is December and whereas she doesn't have family members that she wishes to buy gifts for, there are several friends and colleagues for whom she wishes to give a small or not so small gift.
BUB has his, he doesn't have them actually in his sticky paws but his gifts are tucked away safely awaiting collection, so tick! She has found some charming things to give to old colleagues, they always exchange gifts and it is always a delight to source things that they will find amusing but useful.
That's the plundering bit, the roaming bit comes from having her old age Freedom Pass for it takes her all over the place and oh boy, does she go all over the place! She heading for a timber merchant this week as she WILL by hook or by crook have a Christmas tree.
She used to decorate her flowering cherry but meanie landlord said she had to get rid of ALL her plants and trees. She gave three Orange trees to Ossie and the other two went to our Lebanese friends. But how do you have a Christmas tree if you're not allowed to have plants?
You make it out of wood.. thats how. And as it isn't real, she can make it any size she wants! So there. And this, Dear Readers, is how you do it. First you cut out the shape of your pot, this determinds how big your tree will be, think about it. You drill and fashion a couple of pieces of thick wood to lay at right angles to the pot as that it stands up up itself. You take those off and keep them to the side.
Turn the tree over so you are officially looking at its' back. Drill and secure to the pot a length of wood which will be the tree trunk. Off the tree trunk come the branches. Thicker at the bottom and getting thinner towards the top.
Taking your Christmas tree decorations, you place them in position on the tree and drill two tiny holes for their wires to go through and twist at the back as they won't fall off when the tree is standing up. You don't put them into position yet, there's lots more to do before you decorate your tree.
We have endless sets of LED Christmas lights that operate on AA batteries, she'll drill small holes through the 'branches' and after painting the tree, the lights will be poked through the holes and they will be secured by the wires at the back with tiny U shaped pins.
"What colour shall we have out pot this year GeeGee, how about flame orange? And do we want a fir tree or a bluce spruce? A blue spruce would look pretty snappy with an orange pot and we have a mass of old orange and brass decorations, yes, a bruce spruce it shall be."
So off she going to B&Q tomorrow in order to pinch a couple of blue spruce needles with which to match a small pot of paint. The paint guys at her local B&Q are always up for a challenge and they'll love this!
Then a quick whizz past Joe, the timber cutter, will yield all the timber required for the tree and we actually happen to have at home just what she needs for the pot, it's an old piece of marine ply which will make a splendid 'pot'.
She will assemble it, drill the little holes for the wires, then paint it, allowing at least two days for the paint to dry in this wet weather, put its' two legs on so that it stands up, do the scratch marks to look like needles and varnish it.
Then.. it will be time to decorate it with old and new decorations, put the lights on it having put new batteries in the holders and place it outside and attach it to the outside light with a bike cable.. we don't want our Christmas tree going walk-about.. do we?
We'll have a Christmas tree, made out of wood, exactly what a real tree is made of.. chirp.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 21st, 2016.
BUB has his, he doesn't have them actually in his sticky paws but his gifts are tucked away safely awaiting collection, so tick! She has found some charming things to give to old colleagues, they always exchange gifts and it is always a delight to source things that they will find amusing but useful.
That's the plundering bit, the roaming bit comes from having her old age Freedom Pass for it takes her all over the place and oh boy, does she go all over the place! She heading for a timber merchant this week as she WILL by hook or by crook have a Christmas tree.
She used to decorate her flowering cherry but meanie landlord said she had to get rid of ALL her plants and trees. She gave three Orange trees to Ossie and the other two went to our Lebanese friends. But how do you have a Christmas tree if you're not allowed to have plants?
You make it out of wood.. thats how. And as it isn't real, she can make it any size she wants! So there. And this, Dear Readers, is how you do it. First you cut out the shape of your pot, this determinds how big your tree will be, think about it. You drill and fashion a couple of pieces of thick wood to lay at right angles to the pot as that it stands up up itself. You take those off and keep them to the side.
Turn the tree over so you are officially looking at its' back. Drill and secure to the pot a length of wood which will be the tree trunk. Off the tree trunk come the branches. Thicker at the bottom and getting thinner towards the top.
Taking your Christmas tree decorations, you place them in position on the tree and drill two tiny holes for their wires to go through and twist at the back as they won't fall off when the tree is standing up. You don't put them into position yet, there's lots more to do before you decorate your tree.
We have endless sets of LED Christmas lights that operate on AA batteries, she'll drill small holes through the 'branches' and after painting the tree, the lights will be poked through the holes and they will be secured by the wires at the back with tiny U shaped pins.
"What colour shall we have out pot this year GeeGee, how about flame orange? And do we want a fir tree or a bluce spruce? A blue spruce would look pretty snappy with an orange pot and we have a mass of old orange and brass decorations, yes, a bruce spruce it shall be."
So off she going to B&Q tomorrow in order to pinch a couple of blue spruce needles with which to match a small pot of paint. The paint guys at her local B&Q are always up for a challenge and they'll love this!
Then a quick whizz past Joe, the timber cutter, will yield all the timber required for the tree and we actually happen to have at home just what she needs for the pot, it's an old piece of marine ply which will make a splendid 'pot'.
She will assemble it, drill the little holes for the wires, then paint it, allowing at least two days for the paint to dry in this wet weather, put its' two legs on so that it stands up, do the scratch marks to look like needles and varnish it.
Then.. it will be time to decorate it with old and new decorations, put the lights on it having put new batteries in the holders and place it outside and attach it to the outside light with a bike cable.. we don't want our Christmas tree going walk-about.. do we?
We'll have a Christmas tree, made out of wood, exactly what a real tree is made of.. chirp.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 21st, 2016.
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