Today, on my way home from town, I walked past a house with Christmas lights. Not only does it seem fundamentally wrong to me to put up Christmas lights in November, but the entire front of the house was covered in twinkling, coloured lights.

Now, for my international readers, where I come from this might be considered a moderate amount of Christmas lights in someone’s yard. Most people would probably only do the one tree, and coloured lights are extremely rare. Lights might be put up in the beginning of December. The entire front of a house covered in twinkling, coloured fairy lights to me just feels completely alien. I’m now anticipating the day all the houses on Gorway road put up their Christmas lights with some dread. What a terrifying thought!