Do you Elvis, take Priscilla...

Chez Kellycat, we try to show some restraint with the Christmas decorations. Duck is naturally drawn to anything bright and twinkly, so our kitchen and dining room windows have LED mesh lights in, which are pretty and twinkly but not too over the top.

That was until yesterday, when Duck decided we needed something a little extra. Various rope lights were produced from storage - those plastic tubes with the chasing lights inside them. I vetoed the purple one as soon as it came out of the box, and extracted a promise that it would not be put up anywhere within the vicinity of the house. I was therefore under the impression that only the blue one would be going up, which was fine, because against my expectations, it had actually looked quite pretty last year.

An hour or so later, Duck dragged me outside in he cold to admire his handiwork. From somewhere I obviously don't know about, a multicoloured rope light has emerged and has been put up to outline the arch of our porch.

In retaliation for not letting him have tinsel on the Christmas tree, Duck has turned our house into a Vegas chapel. My mum helpfully enquired this evening as to where we could purchase a neon motel sign with a large arrow to finish the look.

He may have won the battle but the war's not over yet....

Update 20/12/05: A compromise has now been reached. It has been agreed that the Vegas lights will remain on the static setting, as opposed to the flashing, blinking and chasing setting, which I feared could induce epileptic seizures to anybody entering our street after dark. However, I still maintain that our house is currently visible from space.