On February 20, 2018, at 4:30 PM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 08:12:30AM +0000, Timothy Collinson wrote:
>> Out of interest, does that you mean you escape the ridiculousness of how
>> long our run up to Christmas is?
>Unfortunately not.
>Commercial Christmas starts just after commercial Halloween, is
>immediately followed by post-Christmas sales advertised through to
>mid-January.
>Then there's some Australia Day advertising but mostly "Back to
>School" sales through to the end of February with a week or so
>advertising for Valentine's Day, then straight into the lead up to
>Easter, followed by Mother's Day, stocktake sales, end of financial
>year sales, start of financial year sales, Father's Day and by then
>it's about time for Halloween advertising again.
>I'm sure to anyone outside our commercial culture it looks completely
>ludicrous -- and to quite a lot of people within it.
>- Tim
You advertise Halloween?!
We barely get that!