Bah Humbug

It isn’t even half way through December and I’m already heartily sick of Christmas muzak in shops and public places.  It seems that the moment bonfire night is over, we are treated to Wizard, Slade and Wham assaulting our ears wherever to go. Each year, I feel that the over commercialisation of Christmas cannot get any worse but I’m always wrong. It’s clear that there seems to be a belief in the minds of retail marketing managers that the playing of Christmas music will provoke a Pavlovian response in shoppers who will immediately open their wallets and spend, spend, spend