[Teresa Edgerton]

Heh. That's a wonderfully evocative pair of pictures, Rothgar. (Also a very pretty tree before the cats got to work on it.)

When we had cats, we limited ourselves to more-or-less unbreakable ornaments (I say more-or-less because sometimes the cats found a way despite our best efforts), and we spent a lot of time picking up decorations and putting them back where they belonged. When we had young children and young dogs, we always had a small tree on a high table.

Now that we no longer have cats, and the dogs and children have all reached ages of greater wisdom and discretion, I get to decorate as I please -- and when we babysit the grandchildren, barricade one end of the living room with furniture.