We're not having the usual big tree this year (and didn't last year either) because Ella is so mad for climbing. Sasha wasn't that interested in the Christmas tree other than sitting underneath and looking pretty in the lights, but Sheba, the cat we had when I was a teenager, loved to go up it like a shot, actually knocking the thing over at one point.

We'll have a small 'lemon cupressors' from the garden with the lights on instead, up on the bookshelves - Ella'll probably hardly notice that!

CCA