Shopping For Christmas Trees, Decorations, Biscuits and Cookie Cutters

Traditionally a tree was a green real tree brought indoors, when it was too cold to go outside, and decorated with lights to brighten dark days. You may like to think of it as pagan. Or you may prefer to remember that Queen Victoria and Albert started the fashion.

Now you can buy or make white trees, blue trees, red trees, biscuit 'trees' - whatever takes your fancy to celebrate Christmas, holidays, whatever.

Take a trip to a garden centre such as Squires in Stanmore and nationwide around England, or a supermarket, especially those with an outdoor garden section, such as Waitrose in South Harrow or Harrow and Wealdstone, and you will see trees, real or artificial, for sale.

Stuck indoors with a cold, working? You can order artificial trees or decorations from all kinds of shops and supermarkets, to name only a few: Tesco, Argos, The White Shop.

In the old days you made decorations out of foil-wrapped chocolate or biscuit to hand out to family and guests.

Now you can make an entire tree of biscuits only as a table decoration. Supermarkets sell individual biscuits in tree shapes.

Many biscuit cutters (to American cookie cutters) are sold, or given away 'free' on magazines. I looked at a set on a magazine in Waitrose. But the cost was around £5 and I did;t need the megazine. Last year I was desperately keen to buy sets of festive cookie cutters and bought two magazines from a Tesco Express because I liked that year's cutter offer. This year I bought a set with a tree in Morrisons, Hatch End, for only £1. I wondered whether they were price matching the pound shops.



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