Ceiling Streamers?

Where do you find them these days?


Last year Sam and I fixed up a new set of streamers - or whatever you call them - but some ended the festive season in the bin.  A couple fell and snapped under their own weight (nice workmanship China), a couple fell victim to Santa's pressies (NERF blast1!), and more were swiped away during a light sabre duel.  Not a real one, obv.  God only knows what havoc Obi Wan's toddler would wreak if he found and switched on his dad's light sabre - guess it would be worse than Sudocrem handprints all over the bathroom though....


Anyway, where can I find long stringy decs for the ceiling?  It's tempting to knot Poundland tinsel.  We used tinsel on the ceiling when i was a child; Grandad would sit on the settee directing operations whilst fiddling the Scrabble tiles.  They were stuck up using blu-tak (sp) and required re-sticking once a week. I may buy some sticky paper and we'll make some, but it won't be enough for the whole room.


Our Christmas tree was decorated before November was out, but that's because to wait for the next opportunity would have been half way through December.  It's as tasteless looking as ever, but all the better for it.  Lots, and lots, and LOTS of "Mummies" (with a capital M) decorate their tree to within a millimetre of its life, and it has to be perfect.  Every light in place, every bauble 'just so', and god forbid that anything handfuckingmade by children is allowed.  Long live Sam and me and the haphazard "there's a branch, stick summat on it" approach.  I like it.  Sam likes it.  Together we love it.  So get knotted the middle class!


We're pretty low budget.  Definitely won't win any style awards over Christmas.  But it's Ours.







Actually.  just having a moment.  The Winnie the Pooh lights on our tree.  And the cloth Piglet, Winnie, Tigger and Eeyore - me and Sam's mum found them together and oooh'ed and aaah'ed about.  We only knew about them because I was moonlighting at Woolworths in the evenings after my RAF days, to help keep a roof over our heads.  They were Very popular, and I "might" have hidden them somewhere so that she was guaranteed to find them on the Saturday morning. Hmmm, go away brain.....