[Margaret Pilkington]

When my daughter was little, I used to put the Christmas tree up on Christmas Eve after she had gone to bed....she would come down Christmas morning...see the tree and the presents.....she thought that Father Christmas brought the tree and the presents, and she thought the fairies decorated the tree.....One year when she was about 6 she climbed up to the top cupboards in the back bedroom and the tree fell out.... I had to tell her that the fairies had left it there because with so many children in the world they had too much work to do.... and that from then on we would have to decorate it ourselves. She always thought the fairies did it better than us. Aah, the death of innocence!