The mulch offers a brief distraction before she heads back into the warm and dry. not everyone lives near a zoo, of course, but increasingly, charities will pick up your tree and take it to be recycled in return for a donation. barry and ron are expecting a very busy few days. it s something we do every year now. this is the third year that we ll be doing it for the hospice. yeah, we spend a saturday doing it. it s good fun. we ve done 1,500 last year and it raised £20,000 for the hospice, so it s worth getting out of bed for. and that is very welcome income for a sector hit hard by the pandemic. income is tight, but we have these wonderful fund raising activities that people can get involved in. and those extra income streams are more important to us now than they ever have been. like i say, just to continue those those services, ....