Walking to and from the shops we noticed quite a lot of 'advent' trees leaning up against homes.

Apart from them being soaked with the constant light rain they all had one other thing in common. They were all spruce and looking rather ragged and scraggly.

Most people here are quite fussy with tree gathering, this unusual warm wet weather has made it rather difficult to get to good stands of trees especially pine.

On the Carter front the initial bit of panic about breast feeding has disappeared with Carter feeding
away "His feeding ray good".

Foot-note: By fussy I mean in the positive sense. People take great pride in getting the tree that is just right.