Since the 1st of December (or maybe slightly earlier) Mr Toon wanted some lights for the front of the house but just couldn't find the right ones.
He looked online and found some that looked ok but they were over £100 each and were only ok and not WOW. In the end after much searching he decided he could make something thing much better and at a fraction of the cost.
So off he went to his wood pile (he's always got a pack of wood for emergencies. Not of the zombie apocalypse kind, Mr Toon says that for that you'd need a dense hardwood such a mahogany or oak!) and he built our new glorious Christmas lights. In total he spent £50 all from B&Q (I've included the wood already bought). I think they are an absolute triumph!
They were fairly simple to make, made a cross wooden base and then 2 uprights, bring them together at about 6ft high and work out the angle to be able to attach them together, then same again for the other two uprights. Attach all 4 to the base.
Then for the lights, in the box there were plastic attachments that work really well. Mr Toon attached the top one the spaced them out to make sure the rope lights held their shape.
