As the start of December draws near, so the annual avalanche of Christmas Gift Guides arrives in every publication possible. At some point during October (or even earlier), every magazine, newspaper or ecommerce website office around the country has the same inevitable meeting that results in some poor soul being commissioned to source the products for the gift guide. More […]
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Now Christmas has really started!
No matter how many adverts I see on TV, how many times radio stations play Wham!’s Last Christmas or the number of presents I have/haven’t bought it never really feels like Christmas until the tree is up. Yesterday, we tootled down the road to a man selling trees from the car park in the local pub. There was no variation […]
Read moreWhy buy mince pies in October?
Outrage in The Daily Mail today, as M&S have been ‘exposed’ for selling mince pies that have a best-by date of November. Now on the face of it, this is a perfectly valid story. If you’re buying an obviously Christmas-themed product, you’d expect it to last till the festive season, wouldn’t you? But then I stopped to think. I know […]
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