The habit of celebrating everything early.
It is Halloween on October 31 st , it has always been on October 31 st . Try telling that to the crazy people I encountered on my evening out in London last night (October 27 th ). On my train journey to central London, people were dressed as Vampires, Zombies, blood stained nurses and doctors (though they could easily have been real and simply finishing a shift in A&E). There was a woman dressed as a crazed zombified Bette Davis, a guy dressed as a vicar with blood stained face yet there were no Jimmy Saville costumes? Too soon perhaps? This is a little gripe about the need to celebrate everything early. Halloween is one example but Guy Fawkes Night is another. There have been fireworks going off in my area for weeks now and I doubt there will be any left by November 5 th and as for bonfires, this area of London has seen enough arson and fire so you would wonder if the locals of SE London are giving Bonfire night a miss? And Christmas, well Oxford Str...