Good news Jamie. 
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Nice 
Good jeans aren’t they…
Her boyfriend/guitarist lived round the corner from me when I was a kid. We used to go round and get signed autographs off her quite regularly.
They are - I have a couple of pairs. I think I’m about 3 years in unwashed on one pair (occasional wearing and aired) 
. Talking of clothes, I’m a big fan of Sunspel Riviera polo shirts. Great classic cut, no badges.
The traditional spruce.
The only tree that to me is a Christmas tree. It smells of Christmas and looks like a Christmas tree.
I understand why people choose other types of trees, especially the losing needles bit, but it’s just not the same. They’re imposters (if you squint and have no sense of smell), not proper Christmas trees.
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Having bought a fake for the first time, I agree.
Putting the ‘tree’ up & dressing it just isn’t the same.
But I do find it sad when the real tree dies, so I feel I’m a hypocrite.
It’s a separate thread, but I’m not certain which (fake vs real) is the more ecological option…Some keep the fakes for years (my sister in law is one); a lot of our customers seem to get new ones each year.
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Fakes are a lot lot better these days… I was tempted this year but they all seemed to be so expensive for one that looked decent…
Yeah, the £££ ones look good…but at a distance…
I’ll bet there’s a spray available to imitate the pine scent. Or room freshener/candles/diffusers.
Christmas is a huge industry after all.
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It’s too big ! They start advertising in September lol
Why is everything so ‘amplified’ now days… Halloween for example
All money money money 
My wife saw Valentine’s Day cards in a smaller John Lewis today - very few Christmas cards so I think they padded out the stock!
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Why the apparently incredulous years? I know we live in a throwaway society, but buying tnen discarding an artificial tree each year is a waste of money and damaging to the environment. have a fake tree that I have put up every year and I think is now possibly just over 30 years old - chosen on the basis of being pretty realistic in appearance, if not the cheapest around, and it still looks pretty good today. I usually have a real tree in addition when home over the entire period from about 18th Dec to 6th Jan. I tried a fully rooted potted tree two years ago, and it managed last year as well, but has died.
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Perhaps to clarify, I wasn’t even talking about fakes. I was thinking of the popularity of (Nordman) firs and I think I even saw a dressed up pine tree the other day.
I do agree about it being a bit sad when it dies, but I haven’t managed to keep a potted one alive (tried only once though), and I console myself with the fact that it was grown for purpose, not chopped down in a forest.
Well, chopping down in a Forrest is actually good. This year we bought a nordmann indeed, but in previous years we axed some on the ‘hoge veluwe’. Nice activity to do with kids.
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A Nordmann just isn’t a Christmas tree in my book, sorry 
What you mention does indeed sound fun, but I can imagine it only works if a small group of people do it every X years. With the amount of trees being sold, some people even having multiple, I doubt it would be very sustainable if we all did that every year.
But I will look it up as an activity next year, I bet my daughter will love it.
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Totally agreed n-lot. It’s a good activity to do. Make sure you book early since there were no time slots left this year for us
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I bought ours in about 1983 or 4
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Sorry, wasn’t meant to be incredulous, just emphasis. Years is good.
Oops, I misread your post!
I think we had a Spruce once. It was lovely.
I’ve never had success with keeping trees alive: our neighbour planted his, but it didn’t thrive.
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