I have always been a fan of fake christmas trees so last year at the begining of december i ventured into the attic to drag out our christmas tree, it was a fiber optic tree with stars on it so all i had to do to make it look beautiful was drape a bit of tinsel around it and pop the star on the top, done.

Unfortunately for my poor christmas tree ziggy our iguana decided that he was over the moon someone had put a tree in his living room and off he went to climb it, he spent the next few days up and down the tree, breaking bits off it, chewing the fiber optic strands off and pulling at my tinsel but he had great fun, eventually my tree had no lights left on it and looked a right mess so we needed to get a new one.

I contemplated buying another fake tree but thought i would only have the same froblem again so went and brought ziggy a nice 6 foot pine tree to climb up, We had never had a real tree before so i didnt realise how beauiful it was going to make the room smell, It was a lovely smell that added to the atmosfere of christmas for us, I was a little concerned about the needles shedding from the tree but this didnt happen untill after christmas so wasnt too bad but by new year i had a bald tree, mostly due to ziggy though.

A real christmas tree looks so much more beautiful than any artificial tree and the smell just cant be found without a real tree, although it takes me longer to decorate the real tree it will definately be a real tree again this year in our house.