A Very Early Christmas

Picture the scene, it’s October 1st and Nanna has gathered us round to say she probably won’t be alive at Christmas. She wants to ‘do’ Christmas early.
The farm understands and lets us chose a tree, they cut it down and we take it home and decorate it. It’s October 5th. On the 13th we celebrate Christmas.
By November we’re hoovering up needles twice a day. By December the inevitable happens. The tree is dead: just a bare skeleton in the corner.
Now, three years on, we still trim up early. But we’ve talked Nanna into having an artificial tree.