Christmas Celebration With 80 Year old Tree

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Monday, December 8, 2008, 11:35

Frances Fearn is celebrating this Christmas with a tree that is older than herself. The 78 year old Brit woman says she enjoys decorating the eight decades old tree gifted to her late husband by his grandmother.

"It's so threadbare but it was my husband's pride and joy. I think it's the oldest tree in the country," the Telegraph quoted Fearn, as saying.

"I have to admit it's getting a bit tatty now. I just hope I don't do any damage to it this year. I always try to decorate it like Geoff did," Fearn added. Fearn revealed that her husband loved Christmas and decorating the tree.

"Geoff just loved Christmas - and Christmas had to be with the family and his tree, which was given to him by his grandmother when he was a small boy," Fearn said."We always had a big tree as well as this one," she added.

The Octogenarian has vowed never to get rid of the tree and says she knows her husband, a former bus driver, would want her to keep on using it. She decorates the old tree with a gold bell, a pipe and a Father Christmas figurine.