Forget “If a tree falls in the woods and no one’s around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Here’s a new bit of arboreal philosophy to chew over: If you put your Christmas tree up on 30 November, does it make you posh or gauche? Is it middle class to have multiple trees? And are coordinated decorations common or classy?
For a nation that imported the Christmas tree tradition from elsewhere – we have Queen Victoria’s German husband Prince Albert to thank for its widespread adoption – Brits sure have a lot of opinions about what constitutes the “correct” way of doing things.
