Spruce Springsteen The Sprucie Bonus
For quite a while I'd wanted a real Christmas tree that I could keep in a pot and bring indoors each year. In December 2012 I went to the garden centre, looked at a few and found this little chap, potless and frozen to a shelf. I thought he would cause trouble at the till because of his lack of barcode but I loved him and decided to make the commitment. The girl at the checkout asked if he'd had a pot. I replied, "No but I just liked the look of him". She turned to a colleague who simply shrugged so she turned back to me and sent him along the belt, completely bypassing the scanner, making him my "sprucie bonus". (I have no idea what type of tree he is but Mum and I both agreed he looked quite "sprucie".)