Decorating a Christmas tree in the Timber Yard at Lyme Park Nov 2019

At the beginning of Oct, MNTV was asked if they would like to decorate one of the (donated) live and potted Christmas tree's that would stand in the Timber Yard at Lyme Park. They were contacting local community and supporter groups this year, to see if they would like to be involved in decorating one of the trees as their own.
The decorations needed to be weather and deer proof (just in case!) and the theme was books and stories but we could also advertise our Group if we wanted to.
We emailed our members and were thrilled to have a good response and many idea's of what we could produce. We settled on CD's with either random key words telling our 'story' of the sites we visit, the tasks we do and the fun we have, also some actual stories written by some of our members about what they enjoy about MNTV, as well as some advertising!! and some lolly sticks in the shape of M N T V.

It was great that many members wanted to get involved and I had CD's ready to put on the tree arriving from Scotland and the Lake District, from some of our distant members, also from Heaton Mersey from a member just before she went on holidays and the advertising came from me as I cut up and stuck on some of our MNTV leaflets:-)
After arranging a time to decorate the tree, Karin and I met at the Timber Yard and added the CD's and lolly-stick letters, whilst admiring the trees already decorated by the local Brownies and Guides.
We hope the decorations will stand up to the weather between now and Christmas!!
Photo's from Karin

the MNTV tree is on the left