Edinburgh resident spots Christmas tree abandoned by the bins four days before the big day

Christmas tree abandoned by the bins four days before the big day

Thom Dibdin, an Edinburgh-based theatre critic and journalist, spotted the abandoned tree this morning, Monday December 21, on Eyre Crescent in Canonmills, while walking his daughter to school.

He said he turned to her and said: “I know they said Christmas is cancelled, but that is ridiculous!”

Shortly afterwards he took to Twitter to share his surprise that someone had given up their Christmas tree so early this year, saying: “I know they said Christmas was cancelled - but this is ridiculous!

“Seen on our street this Winter Solstice morning, Mon 21 December 2020.”

The tree being thrown away early comes after the weekend news that the Government is enforcing harsher coronavirus restrictions to try to get the new strain of the virus under control.

The variant is currently most prevalent in the South East of England but Nicola Sturgeon has said some cases have been identified in Scotland.

The First Minister announced that instead of the five-day easing of restrictions which was planned between December 23 and 25, people in Scotland will now only be able to mix with other households on Christmas day.

Christmas tree abandoned by the bins four days before the big day

The limit of three households and a maximum of eight people will remain.

But Ms Sturgeon said her “strong advice” was for households not to mix at all.

All of mainland Scotland will go into Level Four restrictions from one minute after midnight on Boxing Day, for three weeks.

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