OT Just passed a house with the Christmas decorations up

I don't want to take the risk that any country I might visit would be taken off the travel corridor list while we were there. It would also be a hassle to complete the passenger locator form before returning; I would have to get access to a computer to do that.

I find it irksome too, but surely you are capable of ignoring it and letting those people who are into it have their fun? If you expressed similar views about gay pride, Notting Hill, etc. you'd be labelled as bigoted.

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Which is what I normally do, by going to a country where they do things differently.

But they're only one day although the gay pride seems to turn into a month-long thing of every shop putting a rainbow flag in their window to claim their gay-friendliness.

I don't think singing "I wish it could be Christmas every day" in July whilst vomiting copiously on the pavement is a protected religious characteristic.

Owain

exception.

There is big difference between ignoring a day or three of festival or parades in a city 30 to 300 miles away and trying to ignore a month or three of purely commercialised Christmas being pushed in front of you everywhere you look from TV, radio, newspapers, hordings, shops, supermarkets, online...

What really bugs me is the incessant, condescending, "for your perfect Christmas you must do ...".

After the waste of a week when Di died, it was fortunate timing that the queen mother died a few hours before I left the country for 6 weeks, if at all possible I'll be booking flights when Liz carks it.