Ria, I said to John at the time that the council were possibly trying to beat a potential lockdown. I took that photo on 27/9 but they were actually up the week before that.
Funnily enough I had a WhatsApp message on the neighbour group just after I posted this. Nicky two doors down has suggested that we go all out on the close this Christmas and she’s looked into getting a string of lights to hang across between the houses. She’s trying to drum up enough interest to split the £380 for 100m of lighting to make it a fair amount per household. I think it sounds a lovely idea, we did it with bunting over the Summer and it really lifted the spirits when you saw it.
As for the tree, John practically has to hide the garage key on Boxing Day to stop me from going in there for the boxes and taking the trees down. I’ve had enough of it by then