Obviously, I DO put the lights on before all the decorations! Got to test them, after all. It's just that it's quite hard to get them as I like them, nesting in among the branches, so the light comes from behind the decorations when I've carefully tied all the precious old glass baubles on securely ( despite generations of cats, only once, in early years had a disaster when cat pulled tree nearly over - perhaps the fact that I firmly wire the topmost lead branch to the beam that goes across the conservatory in just the right place, before I set the star on top might just have something to do with lack of more recent disasters, as cats when kittens have all had a go at climbing up!)
Having said that, they'll probably shin up with wire cutters this year, and cause chaos.
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