London's west end is the worst.    BHS departmental store had it's christmas lights on before Halloween and they have already started to turn on christmas lights on the street.    Bond Street lights were turned on earlier in the week by a group supposedly called Bond (who are a group of classical musicians), but who sounded like the Salvation Army as I walked past.

Come the end of this month it will be impossible to actually walk around the West End without being blinded by the lights and stampeded by the Christmas shoppers thinking that they are about to enter a siege.

Not that I don't enjoy Christmas (I start my Christmas shopping in January!).

Pushkin