Attempts at decoration

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I never thought that I would love being interrupted from my reading by a small kitten practicing her tight-rope walking along the back of a couch that is far too high for her. And then have to put my book down to haul her off only to discover she has dug her claws into the couch because she’s enjoying herself and she’s not going to let me interfere with her suicidal schemes. The naughtier our kittens are, the more adorable they are, but I doubt the same state of affairs is going to apply when they’re bigger and still being just as wicked. Cords exist for chewing, couches exist to be jumped on and clawed to death, and DVD players make an interesting hurdle in the living room obstacle course they’ve been running every evening.

I decided in the end that as an alternative to a tree, I would decorate the interior of the house with lights and baubles. I had an Inspiration, and decided to buy some transparent little sticky hooks, and make a Christmas tree shape on the wall out of lights. I discovered that it is a little hard to judge the end result when you’re sticking transparent hooks on a pale wall, and my Christmas tree ended up looking more like a festive hat. A little bulgy and rounded, and not really the magnificent pine tree silhouette I had in mind.

I hadn’t read the box of lights very carefully when I bought it, and realised during the process that there were lots of lights in the box. 20 metres of lights, in fact. So one end of the Festive Hat trails off, around the corner, up onto the ceiling (where there was a handy hook) and off around into the kitchen, where it finally stops above the kitchen sink. It looks a little bit crazy, and is the sort of thing you see in someone’s house and say, “Wow! Isn’t that… interesting!” in a bright and cheerful tone of voice, while wondering if you are in danger of being attacked with a string of Christmas lights. The Prince did lie on the couch occasionally bursting into fits of laughter while he watched me work on my creation (there were a few tangling incidents), but afterwards he declared me to be “very creative” and said it looked lovely, proving himself to be an excellent husband, as well as an excellent liar.

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