Xmas gets into Halloween and more…

A short posting today as I have a lot on just now but its a good one.  When can you tell its not only Christmas but also the blatantly sad side of commercialism?  Well its easy, walk down the main street in Girvan on the 6th of August 2013 and see Christmas decorations for sale blazing away merrily in a shop window.

Yes, I kid you not.  Its a little game my good lady and I play every year with the festive season and also with other dates such as Valentines Day, Halloween, Easter, Summer Holidays and the juggernaut that is Christmas Day.  I can tell you as a FACT that since 2004 not only has the festive season been happening a week to two weeks earlier (taken from first seen as in today) but it has also been pushing aside other famous days too with the full swing of Xmas now occurring before Halloween in the shops in 2012.

It makes me all the more determined to make some seasonal miniatures this year, keep the fun in it, its not all about the money after all.  Not all about trying to grab every single possible sale. Well for some of us.

It made a grim vista as I stood there in a t-shirt in the sun….

GBS