Christmas Tree

Well it's that time of year again where it's time to go into the store room and pull out the ole Christmas Tree and Decorations. I finally found mine hidden way way way at the back of the store room. Got out the decorations as well and together with the missus we started putting up the Christmas Tree and decorating it. Quite a messy affair as the decorations had little sparkles and the tree branches were dropping off and had falling figs all over the place. We got this tree last year it's a relatively new one. The missus wasn't too pleased with the mess I made so out came the vaccum cleaner and vvrrrooooooomm ..... all the little bits were sucked up. Had to vaccum our feet as well as the little sparkles were sticking to our feet. Once the decorations were up, I got out the lights knowing that they probably might not work as christmas lights are notorious for failling, I plugged them in and lo and behold they worked with nice flicker and music as well. woo hooo ... so up goes the lights, plug in the plug, switch in on and .... NO LIGHTS !!! after many fruitless attempts to get it started, they just would not work, so down come the lights once again. Probably will have to get a new set.

My wife bought a new set of lights today and up it goes, switched it on and BAM, it works we have lights !! finally !! Yeah !! So here's a look at our Christmas Tree not much to it but it's a nice small little tree.

Well if you look really closely you would be able to see the following little figures, which I secretly added to the tree. They'll probably have to be taken down once the missus finds them all. Hopefully it'll be after Christmas by then :)

We had a Fire Drill today, a total surprise one. So down we went, all 32 floors, yes that's right walk down 32 flights of stairs. It wasn't that tough but I was getting giddy from going round and round 32 times !! or was that 64 times ? Here we are the photo on the right is where our department had to gather.

And over on the left is our Fire Warden - Glen holding his red Fire Warden armband. I guess they do take their fire evacuation seriously considering the CBD area seems to be prone to experience tremors and what have you. I've never been invovled in a Fire Drill excercise for a very very very long time. Most often you try to have an external meeting during that period hee hee ...