It's Still Only September

[muninnhuginn]

And therefore time for the annual whinge about Tesco

1. Having just put out the Hallowe'en (am I the only person who respects that apostrophe in Hallowe'en these days?) clobber on its shelves
2. Having moved the organic groceries in order to display the Christmas chocolates thereby displacing the tissues to another part of the store (at least they put a sign in front of the refugee organic goods telling us where the displaced tissues were, a courtesy not apparently extended to the purchasers of organic stuff).

And Boots has its Christmas stock in, too.

Can't we just have a peaceful autumnal lull between going back to school and the end of year consumer madness?

(Am feeling extra grumpy since Tesco had, for the second or third time, no organic mince, and the trip to Boots was caused by the sudden need to buy Diflucan. Bah!)

Comments

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

Can't we just have a peaceful autumnal lull between going back to school and the end of year consumer madness?

Hear hear! The concept that Christmas stuff should be on the shelves so soon is just wrong.

[armb.livejournal.com]

> am I the only person who respects that apostrophe in Hallowe'en these days?

No, just outnumbered thousands to one, says Google:

Results 1 - 10 of about 529,000 English pages for Hallowe'en [definition]. (0.89 seconds)
Did you mean: Halloween ?

Results 1 - 10 of about 34,700,000 English pages for Halloween [definition]. (0.24 seconds)

[muninnhuginn]

Oddly the lj client's spell check wanted either "Hallow e'en" (two words) or "halloween", the first of which I'd be OK with but not the latter.

The OED has Hallow-e'en. However the quote from Queen Victoria has Halloween.

Hah! Humbug!