Well, it is my favourite time of the year (as you may know!) – it is a week until my family come (poor Mick) so it is up with the decorations this weekend. Christmas trees here are not the same as in the UK – they don’t have that fantastic smell for a start and are hideously expensive. Outside, there are hundreds of Cacti – one kind is called the Pita – it is like a huge asparagus shooting out of a ginormous blue cactus plant – it is like being in Land of the Giants. When the plant sends up this shoot, it grows to about 15 feet or more and flowers and is just quite amazing. However, sadly after this happens and the seeds drop or are carried away by the wind or by birds, the entire thing dies. Brilliantly, though, they make a beautiful and different kind of Christmas tree. Entirely green in everything but colour. Mick chopped one down yesterday and last night having potted it and put it in situ we decorated it. Two sets of my lights don’t work (why is that?) so will be buying more tomorrow but in the meantime here it is.
Have a look and see what you think.
Oh Christmas tree, or is it?
Yummy Almeria 
Now that’s a lovely looking tree and how christmassy , you have made it!
xxx