Our Christmas tree that year was a spindly scrap of a cedar sapling hacked from the woods behind our house. My brothers wrangled it through the front door, and its scratchy limbs brushed the carpet in ...
Now Donnacha has a safe Christmas tree that he can hang out in and the family has a huge, colourful Christmas teepee to brighten up the sitting room. And it was, as Ray says, built with love.