Bah! Humbug! Why shops are already playing Christmas tunes

Because then, like a fury-stoking musical flying caribou, along came Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, bursting out from the shop's loudspeaker.A song with no place in the world other than at Christmas, being imposed upon me at a time when people were still trying to get by in T-shirts.On a day when you could clearly remember the cricket season, and when you might still fancy buying an ice cream, here was a great dollop of Christmas being siphoned down by ears.