oh i remember now...israeli intelligence had worked it out first...after i had talked about 100 'father xmases or more' being arrested 'that xmas' during the 60s....one of my strangest and most bizarre chidlhood memories....my parents telling us afterwards - that most of those father xmases who had been standing around trafalgar square...and we had all had our photo taken with one of them....well they had all ended up on LONDON GAOLS for the night....

it all makes 'sense' now - sort of....

and it takes another culture...and a highly 'sensitive one' let us say..... in relation to espionage,  to be able 'get it' - doesn't it?

i can remember them laughing....so the norwegians send over this massive tree...the tallest they can find...and you put it up in the heart of london - with no 'checks'?

well, it's a goodwill gesture, i mumbled.....y'know...diplomacy....

and then i began to 'get it' too...