It was a hot day. I mean - really hot +27 in Celsius (for those who prefer big digits - 80.6F). For Little Island it is almost extreme as it always combines with humidity. It felt like mid summer mini heat wave... Last time this happened, the tarmac detached itself off the road surface and rolled away stuck to the tires of the cars. (Mind you, that doesn't mean it was too hot on a surface, only shows the quality of tarmac). We had a longer heat wave before as well...
This time it was a one-day-show, so no particular damage to the roads, but my brain certainly melted...So when I walked into this shop, I thought at first it was heat-induced hallucination. Except that it was not. This has to be shared. With you...Let us freak out together, just for the fun of it;- )
Today I give you...Christmas! Yes, you heard it correctly...I mean - it is insanity, right? 31st of August, unsuspecting customers walking into the shop and were greeted by Christmas in the baking!
The order of the World has suddenly become rather condensed, all events to be celebrated were issued the same number in the queue! Maybe we ought to have one big holiday season from October till January and call it something like Hallomas or Christmeen and just be jolly all throughout, for all at once and nothing in particular. Are we in a hurry to live through life? At the highest speed possible?
In this particular shop Halloween hasn't been left out either, so you just pass under the garland of pumpkins and walk right into this merry man! There were shelves stocked with seasonal merchandise in a "pumpkins to the right, Christmas to the left" fashion - literally in the same aisle, right hand side and left hand side of it. Confusing? Trust me - it's freaking scary!
Every year retailers here compete on who push out Christmas first. And every year it is pushed out earlier and earlier...and it is always happens with a domino effect - as soon as one shop put a single mince pie on a shelf, it's an epidemic...Seen it so many times, still can't get used to it...August?!!! Seriously?! These people simply take the fun out of Christmas and convert it into long and exhausting marathon by the end of which everyone get so fed up with seasonal joy, we can't wait for Christmas to be over.
(mind you, Mince Pies Appreciation Society might have a different opinion on this!)