The tree is laid to rest

The decorations are now down, spurred on by a need to remove the obviously dead tree! There truly are pine needles everywhere, and they are of a different/larger/more annoying kind than the British ones. I have blocked up the hoover trying to remove them from the carpet...

Here's a little piccie of part of Katy's Sylvanian Christmas scene which has decorated the piano for the past fortnight...