A festive dad has responded to a neighbour's claims that his Christmas lights are tacky by inflating a six-foot elf instead.
This year Billy Morgan threw himself into decorating his home in Bridgwater, Somerset.
Splashing out £220 he used three projectors to beam seasonal figures onto the side of his above icicles, an inflatable Santa and a large snowman on Sunday.
Two days later a hand-written letter was posted through the door.
Claiming to be from a group of irked neighbours, it read: "Myself & other neighbours I have spoken with feel as though your attention seeking "Christmas" display is just far too much. It's on the verge of tacky.
"(We are) all about the Christmas spirit but please tone it down.
"Thanks, neighbours."
Not to have his festive spirit diminished, the father-of-four blew the note up and printed it out in A3.
He then attached it to a large inflatable elf which had been freshly installed in the garden - one of the £53 worth of extra items that he bought from B&M bargains to make his point.
He even picked up some overtime in order to coverage the cost of the additional decorations.
"If you put a note like that through my door I'm going to go big or go home, so I decided to get more," the 38-year-old told The Sun.
"Christmas is meant to be tacky; it's meant to be bright and colourful and is for kids to have fun."
According to Billy, whose children love seeing the light when they come home, posting the note flies in the face of the Christmas ethos.
He said: "Writing and posting a note through my door like that is a real Scrooge thing to do, it's not in the spirit of Christmas at all."
When Billy posted the note on social media friends and family flocked to the family to show their support.
Frank Collins wrote: "Keep up the good work Billy hope you keep adding to your Xmas joy and spreading happiness and joy to all your neighbours and friends and a Happy Christmas to you and your family."
Jodee Culver Evans added: "What mean neighbours you have, and probably only one horrid one hiding behind the 'we all feel the same' rubbish.
"It’s not nice to put unsigned letters through someone’s door, it’s cowardly vulgar and downright tacky.”
