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I have to fight with my wife to keep the tree until 12th night!
Don't you stand the tree in a water with a reservoir? We do and we use some sort of "tree keeper" (which is probably just scented sugar, ethylene glycol and sorbic acid). We don't get much needle drop at all, even on a spruce.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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We have a reservoir, just use water and the tree normally does okay.
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Then that's clearly good enough.
Things tend to be on the dry side over here (I've had a tree take up a few litres in a day). I know ethylene glycol improves transport (it's used in fungicide on grape vines, or at least used to be until some dope watered wine down with it some years back), and sugar always helps keep cut plants/flowers fresh.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I got a young lads, so the tree goes up and if I'm lucky the tree is still standing an hour later.
The norm is that it's bare within an hour and worse case is, its laying down across the lounge floor.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Simon_Whale wrote: its laying down across the lounge floor.
Ah. I learnt that lesson years ago: mine is securely tied to the stairs! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mine gets boxed in between a bookcase to the left, TV cabinet to the right and a armchair in front but somehow they still are able to down the tree
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Hence the tie-down - PCB Linking wire, it's think and shiny, and good and strong. Works wonders!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nay. I enjoy chocolates and ginger&cinnamon sweets - and this is the only time of the year I feel not guilty after eating them.
Also it is the only time of the year we can find Panettone and Pandoro - must jump on it!
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Sack, rocks, river? 
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Wow. That's the Christmas Spirit. 
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I don't believe in hate, but I am not a great fan of cats.
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I like X-mas: in some minutes our team goes eating. I hope I get some gouse. 
And tommorow amazon will ship my new Nexus 6 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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William Wordsworth wrote: And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Quote: Gawd. Three weeks of cat destroying Christmas tree. Three weeks of not being able to go to the loo in dark because of what sharp broken objects he has scattered since you went to bed... Sigh | 
Can we all cancel Xmas and move on to summer already? Please?
Thank you I needed a good laugh this morning. Has been an extremely stressful week at work. So much to get done in a little time.
Merry Christmas and hope it gets at least a little better for you. 
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
-Douglas MacArthur
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What came first in your family?
The tradition of putting up a tree or having a cat?
When the root of the problem is truly understood, only then can the complete solution be found.
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Tree then Cat. Or Cat then Tree, depends on how you look at it.
When I was a kid, we had Tree before Cat. Then I didn't have a Cat for a long time (and didn't have a Tree either). Then Herself moved in, and the Tree returned. Then the Cat arrived.
On her side, they had both Cat and Tree when Herself arrived. And she has continued the tradition of both. Despite not being able to remove a dead mouse from the carpet for no obvious reason...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Who couldn't remove the mouse? Your wife, the cat or the tree?
Of course the tree couldn't, you've basically hermetically sealed the thing to the stairs.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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The cat has no problem moving mice, birds, moles, and other assorted wild(ex)life.
The wife cannot move anything "nasty" for reasons she does not feel need explanation.
The tree I suspect of plotting to attack the cat when his back is turned, and will also not transport vermin.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sounds like "you're up" then!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Bah humbug! It's about the only time of year you get to sleep late, drink early & not sell the Big Issue! 
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glennPattonPUB wrote: not sell the Big Issue!
So...the DoW&P metting went well then?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well fine, if you mean having to go through several doors locked by the same system as Porton Down. Wait over half an hour to talk to a nice lady 'who can't help as much as she should be able as my Work Coach is ill' (I have a Work Coach?). I can claim expenses in travelling to interviews, but not for registration fees for agency (some agents charge you to do nothing but ask silly question?, that I did not know!)...hence the Big Issue comment! 
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glennPattonPUB wrote: locked by the same system as Porton Down
Not seen how they are secured, but if my experiences with other government run facilities is any guide, the doors are wedged open with a rolled up newspaper...
Harwell (the Atomic Energy Research place) regularly had people just walk in, thinking it was the Rutherford labs next door, or leave by just flashing a public library card. The armed security guards seems mostly concerned with preventing the theft of stationary...
A Large Bank in London had impressive access control to the banking computers. As a contractor, there to fix a modem problem, I had to be escorted through the building. Then my escort entered a large metal cylinder which rotated to trap him. His palm prints and password were checked, then the cylinder rotated to let him out the other side.
Then he opened the little wooden door beside it and let me in. Pointed me at the modems rack and buggered off to read the paper... 
Took me twenty minutes of searching to find him after I finished, and wanted to go.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They tend to secured via bored looking 'Security Guards' as they are to secure doors to give them something to do...My experience at Porton Down was odd as the first day on site everything was locked up armed guards (MP's) looking stern. The second day there the door was wedged open, I asked why the reply was "Random Inspection". How was it random if they knew to secure every thing before hand? 
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