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Don’t let Christmas tree needles go to waste
Precious pines: a woman in Brighton carries her tree to a recycling centre
Credit: simon dack/alamy
SIR – Felicity Cloake says we should eat our Christmas trees rather than throwing them away.
I would add that pine-needle culinary delights are best enjoyed while soaking extremities in a needle-infused footbath.
Peter Saunders
SIR – On the question of when to take festive decorations down (Letters, December 30), many years ago, when my three sons were fairly young, we visited my house-proud mother-in-law on Boxing Day.
Shortly after we had finished our turkey lunch, she took the lights and decorations off the artificial tree, and proceeded to fold it up and put it away, saying: “That’s Christmas over, then.”