Christmas is great but it has to end sometime. You can’t continue to eat and drink to excess for ever. It’s difficult getting back into the swing of things like work though, isn’t it?
Another thing about Christmas coming to an end is what the hell to do with the Christmas tree which has been shedding needles all over the carpet and obscuring the right side of the TV for the past couple of weeks.
The traditional end of Christmas is the Feast of the Epiphany which is on January 6. Apparently, it is when the three kings visited baby Jesus in the stable bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and Myrrh which, apart from the gold obviously, no child in history ever wrote to Santa about.
The Feast of the Epiphany has always been the time when the decorations are taken down and the tree and, apparently, if you leave it much longer it brings bad luck.
The good people in Louth County Council must be anxious to avoid any further bad luck because today they have published on their Twitter account the details of their Christmas Tree Recycling programme which started today.
It reads as follows
Real Christmas Trees can be brought to V&W Recycling Centre’s in Dundalk or Drogheda for recycling.
(It’s so annoying to us Drogs the way they always put Dundalk first).
Opening times as follows:
- Wednesday 29th Dec 9am-6pm
- Thursday 30th Dec 9am-6pm
- Friday 31st Dec 9am-5pm
- CLOSED Saturday, Sunday and Monday 1st-3rd January 2022.
- Opened Tuesday 4th at 9.30am (back to normal opening hours).
V&W Recycling will have Green Skips available for deposit of Christmas trees for recycling.
What you do with your tree if you choose to keep it in situ for the next week is not clear but please, please don’t dump it in a ditch. Or anywhere else for that matter.
We have a tree which lives in a flower pot and it seems to live happily from one year to the next despite being neglected almost totally for eleven and a half months of the year.
I once had a friend who kept his family tree in the attic with all the decorations on. It was a false one obviously but it folded like an umbrella and it was the easiest thing in the world to put up or take down as the mood took you.
That’s enough about Christmas trees – Happy New Year, it’s great to be back! I need to take a rest now.
