Moan, Moan, Moan - 2011

[mark smyth]

Anne get on the phone to Bat Conservation Trust and speak to their legal team

[annew]

Legal stuff started, so I'll let you know what happens. There was a demo for the press this evening at the tree.

[Mick McLoughlin]

Aaaaaaargh
Tesco have got tins of christmas selection sweets in store already.
Its only August for ------- 's sake

[David Nicholson]

A few garden centres down here have had Christmas cards on display for months.

[ranunculus]

A shop in Todmorden has Millennium mugs and tea towels in assorted colours!   

[Paddy Tobin]

John, our youngest, has a summer job in a local department store, Shaws, and came home yesterday afternoon and asked the question, "I bet you can't tell what I spent the day putting on shelves?"

As you have noted elsewhere, it was Christmas material - decorations, mainly. He thought it was hilarious though he had sold a doll's house to a lady two weeks ago. She was buying it as a Christmas present for her daughter.

Paddy

[angie]

A few garden centres down here have had Christmas cards on display for months.

Same here and when I said that's a bit early their reply was we are putting all our Xmas decorations out three weeks earlier than normal this year we need to try and get some money in as it's been such a terrible year. I must say I haven't bought much this year but that's because they just sell the same stuff year after year.

Angie  

[Lesley Cox]

Besides, if they get the money in now, they won't get it in Nov/December and then they'll complain they had a bad retail season this Christmas. They can't have it both ways and we all only have so much to go around. Can't spend money we haven't got.

[fermi de Sousa]

I hesitate to say that they have the right idea in the USA where no X'mas merchandise goes on display till after Thanksgiving day! However there is hardly a week where there isn't some commericalised 'event' being merchandised, from NYE to Valentine's day to Mardi Gras to Easter, etc etc, but at least there's no X'mas stuff till the end of November!
cheers
fermi

[Martinr]

Fermi, you clearly haven't found the permanent Santa & Xmas stores which abound in certain parts of the USA

[David Nicholson]

Fermi, you clearly haven't found the permanent Santa & Xmas stores which abound in certain parts of the USA

.... which would make an excellent target for rioters!

[ranunculus]

Fermi, you clearly haven't found the permanent Santa & Xmas stores which abound in certain parts of the USA

.... which would make an excellent target for rioters!

Hope they don't 'sack' the shops or 'sleigh' the owners ...

[alpines]

Ho ho ho !!!!! You have been miss sled (misled) Fermi.........We actually have a Santa Shop in Berea which is open all year round...beautiful hand crafted work it is too (not the typical Made in China rubbish)......but way beyond the reach of paupers like myself. Some of the ornaments sell for over a $1000.

[fermi de Sousa]

I couldn't afford to go into those sort of shops, Alan!
I meant the general run of the mill type super-hyper-markets which abounded across middle America. The small town I lived in (Ruston, La) boasted a super-Wal-Mart which is where I witnessed this phenomenom and for once I was grateful for the high degree of commercialisation in the States.
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

My son (aged 14) applied for a part time job delivering a free news paper. It's a weekly paper. He is to deliver 150 and the remuneration is $5.50 (that's less than £2.25)!!! We'll work out the hourly rate on his first, and possibly only, outing!