But I also contributed to the decoration of my parents' tree:

My parents confirmed that we managed to create the ugliest over-decorated Christmas tree in the history of mankind but we were quite happy, my brother and me, to have managed to hang up a record quantity of junk (my husband had the decency to quit the terrain after the first box of decorations - but we just carried on more enthusiastically than ever).
Alice

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I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth!
How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people
that walk with their heads downwards!