Brian G said:David E. Belcher said:"MartinM" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:<[email hidden]>...Quoted message said:The first Christmas card junk mail has just arrived at work today.
I daren't go to a garden centre now for fear of finding a Satan's
grotto!On a shopping trip after work last night, I did notice boxes of
mince
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:pies in Sainsbury's; can't be too long before the local branch of
Woolies is knee-deep in tinsel....David E. belcher
You urbanites must be way behind. Up here in Sticksville we now have
a
Quoted message said:"christmas shop" that's open 12 months of the year (although I
believe it
Quoted message said:closes for the christmas holidays...)
We had one of them in Docklands years and years ago, it closed down,
even before the whole place it was in (Tobacco Dock, a fine example of
a pre-factory outlet retail experience) did.