As a child we always got sent a tree from the country estate where my sister brother and cousin were evacuated during the war. (They were very lucky there!) My husband a Scot doesn't really have that Christmas tradition as a background but he has embraced everything Christmassy since he moved to England. We have had a real tree -for all of our nearly 50years of married life. When we didn't have a car we carried it home home from the greengrocer between us, later it went on the pram. When they were older our children loved going to the forest or our local stately home to buy the tree, choosing exactly the right one was part of the ritual. Even when we were really hard up we always put aside money for a real tree even though some years it was a very small one. For the last 3 years we have bought one from ALDI, beautiful fresh Nordmans (£14.99 this year.) No one is coming this year because of the pandemic but we have still bought a tree. It'll be featured on our Zoom family Christmas meeting.
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