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NOT TOO FAT, not too sparse, just the right height…. Dublin City Council has already started looking for that perfect Christmas tree.
Well, loads of perfect Christmas trees.
The local authority has already issued its invitation to foresters to tender for the supply of trees for the 2014 festive season.
The council wants “competent suppliers in order to establish a single party framework agreement for the supply of Christmas trees for the 2014 Christmas Tree Programme”.
DCC is very particular about its trees, requiring them to meet market specifications such as “height, straightness of stem, length of stem handle, symmetry and fullness of foliage”.
The stem handle should also be cut at right angles to the stem to leave a flat base, it has told prospective applicants.
“Each tree [is] to be healthy and in a vigorous condition, fully furnished from the appropriate length of stem handle base to top of tree, with no damaged, dying back/ dead or missing branches,” it added in the tender documents.
The tender is looking for 151 trees, ranging in type and height. The bulk of the order is for 90 8-foot Abies procera, which look a bit like this:
The largest trees being sought are five 45-50-foot Abies nordmanniana, or the Nordmann Fir.
The council also wants 32 of them in the 30-36 foot variety.
It is looking for people to apply for the job of supplier by lunchtime on the 5 September.
It might seem too early to most, but let’s not forget Brown Thomas set up its Christmas shop during the week.
SarahGeraghty / TwitterShould we still try live in the moment as advised by zen gurus when @brownthomas is installing their Christmas shop?! pic.twitter.com/etovRTzWCJ
— SarahGeraghty (@SarahCGeraghty) August 19, 2014
So, better stop being naughty.
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I just leave my artificial Christmas tree up all year round…
It just saves a lot of hassle in the long run….
Dublin city council, their on the ball, you’ll not catch them out, ask Gareth Brooks
Why the hell were asterisks used in the title of the story? The world is Christmas. Is it for fear of causing offence to some minority or just the author jumping in the ‘winter festival’ bandwagon. It’s OK for a Muslim to talk to me about celebrating Eid without me being so much of a tool as to say he has to block letters out. The word is Christmas, it will always be Christmas and shame on TheJournal for doing this.
Love the boldy face in the photo!
I will have that glistening thing … oops
Brown shits have done what now? It’s still summer!
Burn the lot of them
Ticknock forest & trail. Fantastically huge pine trees big enough too fill there quota
In fairness they have to start looking a looking at some stage, these things don’t just happen over night
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