Advent Drabble 21 - Tree
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Oliver got the idea while studying their Christmas tree. There was an obvious pattern to the branches. It wouldn’t be difficult to do.
“What are you thinking?” asked Papa. “It makes me nervous every time I see either of you so lost in thought.”
“I’m plotting out climbing the tree,” answered Oliver.
“Not our Christmas tree!” Papa exclaimed.
“Of course not. It’s covered in ornaments.”
Oliver tested his theory when they went on a holiday to the Cotswalds because there was a serial killer there. He was right: Climbing trees was a science.
It was getting down that was tricky.
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Date: 2019-12-21 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-24 03:37 am (UTC)re: Tree
Date: 2019-12-21 07:44 pm (UTC)However, as many gifs will prove, cats will climb a yule tree, often to the detriment of everyone and everything involved. :)
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Date: 2019-12-24 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-21 09:36 pm (UTC)Sounds a bit like the story I read in the newspaper today where firemen had to rescue a German Shepherd dog which had chased a cat up a tree and got stuck . . . (the cat made it down by itself!)
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Date: 2019-12-24 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-21 10:35 pm (UTC)SHERLOCK: Don't worry, we both know that it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s never the fall. (In a dramatic voice.) It’s the landing.
JOHN: HOW CAN YOU JOKE IN A MOMENT LIKE THIS?
OLIVER (from the heights): Daddy, there's a bee nest up here!
SHERLOCK: What? Don't move, I'm coming! (He starts climbing the tree.)
JOHN: I can't believe this is the life I chose.
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