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US First Lady Jill Biden delivers after receiving the White House Christmas Tree this week. The tree is an 18.5 foot fraser fir from Fleetwood, North Carolina, which will stand in the Blue Room of the White House. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA/Shutterstock I think I saw my first Christmas tree this year a couple of days before Halloween. It was a thin, yellow-coloured, artificial affair with a few pieces of red tinsel draped around it in the lobby of a commercial premises in a town in North Carolina. It wasn’t the most festive of decorations. However as the holiday season –...
