Cragside Christmas tree.

[Mark Bolam]

Was anyone on here involved in this?

 

Amazing.

 

Cragside's 147ft tree sets Christmas world record - BBC News

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The Cragside tree is more than twice the size of the Angel of the North and was planted in the 1860s.

 

[Steve Bullman]

‘Let’s decorate our really tall tree’

 

’ok but can we just do straight lines so it’s easier?’

 

I have this same dilemma every year, bought a prelit one this year 

[Mark Bolam]

Oh so it’s yours?

[kram]

Looks shite. Seems they did it last year as well.

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

Perhaps they’re those lazy bastards who leave their decs up year round.

 

There’s probably a settee and some kids bikes at the front of the house and a broken fridge in the long grass round the back.

[Steve Bullman]

33 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Perhaps they’re those lazy bastards who leave their decs up year round.

 

There’s probably a settee and some kids bikes at the front of the house and a broken fridge in the long grass round the back.

Don’t forget the hamster cage 

[sime42]

Or the broken trampoline.

 

 

[sime42]

On 06/12/2025 at 08:54, Steve Bullman said:

‘Let’s decorate our really tall tree’

 

’ok but can we just do straight lines so it’s easier?’

 

I have this same dilemma every year, bought a prelit one this year 

 

It is a lame effort in that respect, just straight lining it. They could've made an effort to spiral the lights around at least, especially as they had a mewp.

 

I did it for a neighbour a few years ago. I was just climbing, no mewp, but still managed to wrap the lights around. It looked much better. A right ball ache mind; trying to get out to the the tips to untangle long snaggy light strings from the velcro.

 

 

[MattyF]

To be fair I did a big wellie maybe 75ft , still about half that size with and for a member on here a few years back it was an utter ball ache getting it in to a spiral. 

[Steve Bullman]

39 minutes ago, MattyF said:

To be fair I did a big wellie maybe 75ft , still about half that size with and for a member on here a few years back it was an utter ball ache getting it in to a spiral. 

In theory you wouldn't need them to spiral, just stagger them from top to bottom unevenly...no ones going to know they're not spiralled