00:00Hello, this year has been very hard for me because I lost my partner only a month ago
00:18and I started doing my decorations in October and I got half way then she passed away sadly.
00:24Her name was Linda and I thought what do I do? Do I carry on or not? So I just thought for her
00:32and all the people that love my house I just thought I'd carry on putting them up and here I am.
00:38This year I'm dedicating my lights to my partner Linda who passed away. I also dedicate this to
00:46Essex Air Ambulance which I do for the last five years. I've raised so much money for them
00:51and I think it's a really, really good cause. Everybody should donate to that cause.
01:09Yes, Linda loved Christmas. When I was indoors she would over-decorate the ceiling. She would
01:17cover the whole ceiling in decorations and she loved Christmas. It took me a month,
01:26it took me a whole two months this year. The second half was, I'd done it because I just
01:33thought well I've done the other half so it's just like a mastermind. Once you start you've
01:37got to finish and every day I have 87 switches to turn on and I have about eight big bulbs to turn
01:46on, blow them up every day and take them in every day. I normally love Christmas but this year it's
01:55not been great and yeah but hey-ho I'm here. Yeah I've been doing these flights for 19 years now.
02:04I started off with one little light and I just grew and I just grew and I grew.
02:11People love it. I was voted the best one in Essex last year and on Facebook and everywhere else I've
02:18got so many perfect, so many lovely comments and just people and then when people come past they
02:25always bid their utah. They must think I'm mad but yeah I just think it's just it's for the people,
02:33it's for the kids because all the kids love love it here and they also get a free candy cane
02:39if when they come. So yeah yeah when you come and see my house you can you can donate through
02:45a mailbox cash or there is a QR code that you can scan, donate, you don't have to donate you
02:52just have your pictures taken with the snowman or anybody you want, pictures galore as long as
02:59you share on your Facebook page that's all I asked. And also I do have a new blow-up which
03:05is the Grinch I don't know whether you can see him behind me or not and I do have a few more
03:10rain lights which they come down they're multicolored and white and I love I've got
03:15lovely neon reindeer, lovely neon penguin and yeah I just every year I keep thinking
03:22how can I add to it and then I just all through the year I just think of all these things
03:27and then I just and I put them together and then they always look nice.
03:31I'd like to wish everybody a happy Christmas and a happy New Year.
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