Tree's Up!

Okay, so it's a little more compact and bijou than last year's tree, but it's a tree!
There was actually an even more compact and bijou tree on offer, but that was just too compact (about 15 inches high, including the pot). Thalia and I bought the tree for a whole 99 rupees after school on Friday. As that's about £1.20, Archies must be using it as a loss leader. It must have cost more than that to produce, surely. Even with child labour. Speaking of child labour, the kids decorated it that afternoon. I say the kids decorated it, Keir wrapped a little of the sequin string bought from Mr Chawla's Fancy Store that we used instead of tinsel around the tree and then asked if he could play on the Wii. I suppose he felt he'd done enough... I'd bought some fabric decorations at C. Lal & Sons at Jor Bagh market, an embroidered and beaded star and heart, and a peacock, camel and elephant. All the best Christmas trees are wearing camel this year.

On Saturday we went to Chattapur to a small mela (fair) organised by the aunt of one of Thalia's school friends. There more Christmas decorations were purchased, including the velvet stockings you can just see under the tree. That purple one is Keir's. We also fell in love with this:

They actually has some brown and grey elephants, but it's Christmas time, why be restrained!