One moment this fine fir tree was growing in a forest, and the next it’s been cut, hauled across the country on a lorry, and stood up in Abingdon-on-Thames Market Place.
By Saturday 15th November a fence had been placed around it, and a Palestinian flag was on display as part of a pro Palestinian protest. (Bethlehem, where the Christmas story begins, is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, and so the connection is not that far fetched.)
Today, the tree was surrounded by Monday Market stalls and their vans. On the stationary stall are notebooks and 2026 diaries. 2025 seems like the fastest year ever.
Sorry to be pedantic but it’s stationery, not stationary.
Well, it’s both to be *really* pedantic!
Ha ha.
But the stall wasn’t moving. In fact they were all stationary.
A stationary stationery stall…
I know the owner of stationary village. A young zoologist by the name of Howard.
Get rid of the stupid flags. Its a Christmas Tree for goodness sake. Love it or hate it, that’s your choice. Let it (the tree) just be a sign of Abingdon being a Christian English small English market town. This is not some kind of political debate. My good lord. Happy Christmas. Anyone old enough to remember the 70’s and 80’s? never saw bs flags wrapped around the Christmas Tree.