On the 11th day before Christmas... the decorations are going up, how many can you spot?
In the house
• A set of fairy lights, impossibly tangled and seemingly defunct (5 points)
• A set of fairy lights that work first time (100 points)
• An artificial Christmas tree that drops needles to make it look convincingly real (50 points)
• A real Christmas tree that still has any needles left by Boxing Day (25 points)
• An Advent calendar that still stops at the end of Advent (10 points)
• An Advent calendar that doesn't contain tiny slabs of cheap chocolate (50 points)
• An Advent calendar that does contain at least one religious picture (100 points)
• A full set of IKEA candles (20 points)
• A pine cone stuck to a squeezy bottle because Blue Peter said it would look festive (5 points)
• A window covered in spray snow that you'll never ever scrape off come the new year (10 points)
• A paper chain that falls down in the middle of the night and sets off the burglar alarm (25 points)
• A sprig of mistletoe hanging directly above the very spot where your auntie is standing (-30 points)
In the street
• Multi-purpose lights strung across the High Street that have been there since Divali, through Eid and on into Christmas (40 points)
• The council's threadbare attempt at a municipal Christmas tree, drooping folornly in a concrete precinct, decorated with three peeling baubles and some vandalised fairy lights (30 points)
• Snow-topped plastic lanterns and other Victorian-style illuminations hanging out of place in a 1960s shopping arcade (20 points)
• A neighbour's house covered by fairy lights, drawing huge crowds of onlookers and draining the National Grid (-20 points)
• One of those 7-candle stepped menorah things gleaming from every single window down your street (50 points)
• A house with the curtains wide open to show off the christmas tree to the street outside, but also inadvertently revealing the occupants shagging on the sofa (500 points)
On the 11th day before Christmas...
