Watch them grow, watch them go!
19 Jan 2020
Dear LPG,
I am writing this message on January 20th, 2019 in the hope that LPG will publish it in one years’ time as part of their “one year on” feature.
This is the time of year when everyone is thinking of the summer to come and the lighter mornings, but I cannot help but notice a really sad sight occurring on our Lewisham streets at this time every year.
We are just getting back to normal after the Christmas holidays, which I hope were all that each reader hoped they would be, and we all know the importance of 12th night and getting all signs of Christmas out of the way until next year’s advent season, which seems to get stretched so that it starts a little earlier each year.
The thing that really upsets me is the tradition of dumping the Christmas trees which were bought and chosen so carefully less than a month earlier on the streets.
It is often said that those who buy artificial trees are somewhat degrading the tradition as they opt for the cheap option, although even they can be quite pricy these days, but I feel that it is so sad to see the discarded fir trees left on the streets for months after the celebrations are over. How quickly they are demoted from the centrepiece in the living room surrounded with presents, to the discarded dumped conifers that most of us just accept as part of the boroughs winter scenery.
To me it is just another very visual reminder of how the significance of the holiday is depreciating from year to year.
CP, Crofton Park
