IS it just me, or is the festive season starting earlier every year?

I nipped into the supermarket for a wee bag of sweets for the trick-or-treaters only to find the aisles coming down with selection boxes and stocking fillers.

All I wanted was something to hand the youngsters at the door but apparently, I was also expected to get Christmas sorted.

Over the tinny speakers, the Christmas music was already giving it stacks and I found myself saying out loud “Catch yourself on – we haven’t even got Halloween out of the road” as I threw dirty looks at an aisle decorated with a massive inflatable Santa.

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Why are the shops coaxing me to buy stocking fillers before I’d even given out my first candy apple?

I went in worried that I hadn’t got enough mini-Mars bars and came out thinking I’d left it too late for a turkey.

Never mind the ghosts – that’s how you put the frighteners on somebody.

Mind you, I never liked seeing Halloween over as a youngster. I’d barely got the........

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