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Don't know what to do with the old Christmas tree?
David Jenkins - 9/1/10 at 03:25 PM

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The first bit is boring - the action starts around 1 minute in...

02GF74 - 10/1/10 at 10:14 AM

hmmm, I wonder if it would have gone further i.e. more aerodynamic, if fired upside down?

FYI - the tradition of being in fir trees into the house started in Germany and they were hung upside down - if memory serves me well, now google it y'all!

David Jenkins - 10/1/10 at 11:17 AM

I used to work with an Irish girl - her family used to sweep the chimney with their old Christmas tree! Drop a rope down the flue, tie it onto the root-end of the tree and haul it up...

...if they didn't have a tree they'd fire a shotgun up the flue...

[Edited on 10/1/10 by David Jenkins]

iank - 10/1/10 at 11:27 AM

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Originally posted by 02GF74
hmmm, I wonder if it would have gone further i.e. more aerodynamic, if fired upside down?

FYI - the tradition of being in fir trees into the house started in Germany and they were hung upside down - if memory serves me well, now google it y'all!


Thought the upside down thing was a recent thing, but tree's were certainly popularised in the UK by people copying Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the 1840's, who were of course following a German tradition.