I WENT shopping the other day, just to get a few bits.

I couldn’t believe it.

Everywhere was full of Christmas stuff.

Food, gifts, cards, wrapping paper.

It is me or are we not still in early October?

I like Christmas as much as anyone but do we really have to think about it for two-and-a half months before it happens?

I understand that shops see this as the time of the year to cash in.

But they risk turning everybody off before the big day even happens.

I certainly won’t be doing my Christmas shopping for at least another six weeks.

BARRY JONES Birchwood