Liz Fenwick shares a Dubai Christmas Tree

Member of the RNA's New Writers' Scheme Liz Fenwick talks about a tree in Dubai...

Most years we have traveled home to Cornwall from wherever we have been living (Moscow, Jakarta,London, Houston, and Dubai) except for the two years we lived in Calagary and because of this Christmas and Cornwall are totally linked in children's minds as well as ours. However this year we knew my husband wouldn't be able to steal enough time from the office to make the journey worthwhile so we accepted that Christmas would be in Dubai...

This is our second 'tour of duty' here and during our first one we purchased our first artificial tree to make the villa festive knowing that we would have a real tree in Cornwall. Our collection of ornaments in Cornwall is filled with precious memories of grandparents, children's creations, and all the places we have lived so what could I decorate the tree in Dubai with? I didn't want to go to great expense so the children and I walked the beach collecting shells (they were then 9, 7, and 2). We came home and painted them all gold to varying degrees. That year the tree glistened with sea shells and lights. Each year since then we have added silly and inexpensive ornaments to our Dubai tree.

This year because we wouldn't be in Cornwall we splashed out on a real tree here. But of course we don't have the traditional ornaments just shells, camels, bears and bits.....

Hope your Christmas was wonderful and that the coming New Year willed be filled with blessings.

Liz

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