Thursday 08 November 2012 Pictured: Some of the baubles on the Sylvia Pope's ceiling. Re: Grandmother Sylvia Pope likes to be prepared for Christmas. Every year she spends the weeks from September onwards decorating her home in Swansea, UK. But 70-year-old Sylvia has a lot to do because she has an enormous collection of almost 2000 glittering baubles to hang on the ceiling of her living room. And it takes Sylvia so long to complete the enormous task that she will leave the decorations - worth thousands of pounds sterling - up until March. The sparkling ornaments, some of which cost


Thursday 08 November 2012 Pictured: Some of the baubles on the Sylvia Pope's ceiling. Re: Grandmother Sylvia Pope likes to be prepared for Christmas. Every year she spends the weeks from September onwards decorating her home in Swansea, UK. But 70-year-old Sylvia has a lot to do because she has an enormous collection of almost 2000 glittering baubles to hang on the ceiling of her living room. And it takes Sylvia so long to complete the enormous task that she will leave the decorations - worth thousands of pounds sterling - up until March. The sparkling ornaments, some of which cost more than £14 each - come from places as far away as Egypt and New York. But the most valuable is one given to her by her grand-daughter, a bauble to commemorate the Queen's Jubilee.


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