I have just returned from a fortnight in italy (Rome and Naples)and there was not a single Christmas decoration on display.

Nothing in the shops, no adverts for Christmas gifts on tv, nothing!

Christmas lights on the streets were beginning to appear as I left ... a month to Christmas Day.

It was a breath of fresh air Ican tell you.

Unlike this country where Christmas has been unavoidable wherever you go for months.

I went into a shop in Southampton yesterday and an employee told me they've got Easter things waiting in their stockroom already. Crazy!

C. Bryan, Southampton.