Angela Frewen

 This post is a general round-up of some things Christmassy that a child of the 1960s or 1970s will remember! First of all, no Christmas of those decades was truly Christmas unless you had an artificial Christmas tree :) These were frequently purchased in that great old standby, Woolworths and unlike the artificial trees of today which try very hard to look as realistic as possible, our trees were unashamedly fake. Most people still favoured the traditional green but the more daring went for silver.  I can recall quite clearly that there was  a bit of a class divide around Christmas deorations and some of the more garish and flashy items were denounced as 'common'. Although everybody shopped in Woolworths, for at least some of their Christmas acoutrements, they didn't want to look as if their house had been entirely decked out with Woolies' finest ;) Speaking of Woolies, brings me on to fairylights.  During my childhood these were still rather temperamental things which