Saturday, 27 October 2007

Christmas is coming

Forgive me, father, for while doing my grocery shopping at the supermarket this afternoon I bought the family a chocolate Yule log - a full 59 days before Christmas. The only mitigating circumstance I can plead is that it was half price, because it was 'best before' 29 October. I know there have been Christmas puddings in the shops for weeks, but what is the world coming to when a Christmas grocery item can actually be time-expired two months before Christmas Day?

And as chairman, the invitations to Christmas services and receptions and events of all kinds have started to trickle in from around the county. Ding dong merrily on high ...

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