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Melanie McDonagh

Bad tidings to those who celebrate Christmas too early

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If you are one of those posting pictures of your wretched Christmas tree, covered in bling, stop it now. Christmas hasn’t arrived. It hasn’t even started. What started yesterday is Advent, the season for getting in the right sort of mindset, for making pudding, for sending cards and getting quietly excited rather than actually celebratory.

Yet there were celebs posting their wretched trees on November 3. ITV’s Good Morning Britain presented theirs even earlier. Two weeks ago, King’s Road came to a standstill for Christmas carols — Good King Wenceslas, the works — with two girls on stilts marshalling the kiddies to see Santa. It’s hardly a surprise, come Boxing Day, if the little ‘uns are over the whole thing.

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