Each year...

We first bought our Christmas tree from the Forestry Commission (as was) at Glenbranter in December 2007, when I was Environment  Minister and therefore also Forestry Minister.   I had done  a photo call  from there in early December of that year  encouraging people to buy from the Commission so it would have looked odd not to do so myself.

I haven't blipped the purchase every year  since, even though we have done it every year, but am doing so again today to mark what , in this household, is now a tradition.

It has also brought to  mind the role that these journals have in marking the passage of time , sometimes through repeated events or anniversaries - taking of which, yesterday marked our move into Feorlean 32 years ago. 

(PS - if you are thinking of going there for a tree, they appear to be going very fast)