[Mrs Bee]

B and Q have a promotion this weekend on Christmas stuff including real trees.

If you sign up for their loyalty card  and with the discount a £20 real tree will cost about £15.
Sending the OH and offspring to get ours on Saturday.

 Hope they come back with a tree and not a ruddy forest like last year.

[angelavdavis]

I saw real trees priced £54 in our town square today 

[Mrs Bee]

Phew.

Are they gold plated

[arugula]

I saw real trees priced £54 in our town square today 

They are probably 5 or 6 footers of a low drop or soft needle type. Roughly £11/foot, seems to be the going rate for the kind I have described... I hope they were in pots so you can plant them and keep them growing. I do hate the cut type where they just get thrown away after the Christmas festivities!

[Paul Plots]

£54 for a Christmas tree!! Maybe it's time to start a new tradition!  :blink:

Recycled newspaper trees?

[Mrs Bee]

Well ours has been bought and is in a bucket of water in the garden. until the 15th.

Nice shape, not too big for the living room and only £15.

Well done to OH and No 1 son for following instructions this year. 

[angelavdavis]

I saw real trees priced £54 in our town square today  

They are probably 5 or 6 footers of a low drop or soft needle type. Roughly £11/foot, seems to be the going rate for the kind I have described... I hope they were in pots so you can plant them and keep them growing. I do hate the cut type where they just get thrown away after the Christmas festivities!

Sadly no.  It had had the roots sawn off.  I picked up a potted one in Lidl for £7.99 which I plan to try to grow on.  It looked a nice shape and we plan to put it in the conservatory this year and then move it outside after Christmas.

[Auntiemogs]

Well ours has been bought and is in a bucket of water in the garden. until the 15th.

Nice shape, not too big for the living room and only £15.

Well done to OH and No 1 son for following instructions this year. 

"Miracle at Christmas"? 

[arugula]

I picked up a potted one in Lidl for £7.99 which I plan to try to grow on.  It looked a nice shape and we plan to put it in the conservatory this year and then move it outside after Christmas.

[Mrs Bee]

Oh my poor heart.... I don't think I can cope with this.

The forum has gone from Baa Humbug to all singing, all dancing Christmas piccies with almost every post.

And as for the Christmas miracle Auntie, well I was dumbfounded. We will get to see the TV screen this year.

More Christmas miracles too..... I have had clearing up help in the kitchen too from offspring and girlfriend as I have been baking for Christmas. I am obviously looking very tired and haggard at the moment and they are worried about me.

[arugula]

Oh my poor heart.... I don't think I can cope with this.

The forum has gone from Baa Humbug to all singing, all dancing Christmas piccies with almost every post.

You'll get used to how it works.

[Paul Plots]

Oh my poor heart.... I don't think I can cope with this.

The forum has gone from Baa Humbug to all singing, all dancing Christmas piccies with almost every post.

You'll get used to how it works.

Do "we" get as enthusiastic for other religious festivals during the year? I hadn't noticed in the past.


Quietly I'm a fan of the "Ba-humbug" but that won't surprise many.... apart from the "quietly" that is.

[Ice]

Do "we" get as enthusiastic for other religious festivals during the year? I hadn't noticed in the past.

If anyone wanted to get enthusiastic I for one would welcome it.

[hamstergbert]

Feel free Paul to be as enthusiastic as you wish about cut price Diwali trees, reduced cost Eid trees, bargain Hanukkah trees, budget Tet trees, economy Chinese New Year trees etc.....     

I guess this is a market driven forum where the only mark of success is measured in the currency of ongoing responses which should help decide whether such enthusiasms are worth the key-presses........

Persoanlly I am always keen to learn about the other chap's fun events - particularly how come Navrati shows everyone else moving with lithe sinuous grace while in spite of warm encouragement the hamstergbert always dances like a sack of spuds with a piece of baler twine round the middle.

When it comes to trees though, I reckon like the cheapskate (and romantic) that I am, I shall be sticking to the same artificial albeit somewhat careworn one that has graced the hamstergbert hovel for the last thirty odd years.  Cheap cheap.

[Trillium]

I'm with you, hamstergbert. Just can't afford real trees. It's like throwing hard earned money onto the streets, money we can't spare. We've had a nice 7 ft artificial tree we've used for a few years, bought on huge reduction after Christmas, and it's done the job nicely. No needles all over the place, no slopped water keeping the poor tree going, no damage by the cats who've all though it's their personal exercise unit, and oodles of money saved for better things. And no extra load for recycle. If I want compost items, I'll dig out the mower and clippers in summer.