It's official: Christmas is over

We spent the morning packing up Christmas. I spent most of the time dismantling the ornaments, lights, garland and the tree itself. Packing the tree into its box is a bit of an art-form. Bill has a list of how to put the darn thing back together again which goes on top off all the components. It turned out that we'd been putting it together in the wrong order the last few years - and we never noticed! Anyway, this year it was assembled correctly. 

Bill packed most of the other holiday stuff, and I carted most of the boxed stuff down to the storage room. Although we have extra stuff every year, somehow we always manage to fit everything back into the same space. I think the storage room may have been designed by Time Lords.

Now the room looks bare; but I'm confident we'll soon fill it up with clutter!