It's still October...

This picture was taken in the Arndale Shopping Centre in Manchester on Saturday October 25, 2008. That's exactly two months before Christmas. Traditionally I always thought that cribs such as this one are set up minus the baby, and that the wise men only followed in early January. Obviously things have changed. It's a little bit unsettling when you walk down an aisle in Sainsbury's and you can see Hallowe'en decorations opposite Christmas wrapping paper, but I guess in rocky financial times such as this "holidays" need to be milked for all they are worth. But that's another question altogether...