I can’t cope with Christmas just yet!

WHAT KATI DID NEXT:

Hallowe’en just round the corner, Bonfire Night looming . . . it’s all pointing to one thing.
Christmas. And don’t we know it. I am going to start a campaign, I’m sure I said that last year as well, to ban Christmas until Christmas time.

We have pumpkins to carve, apples to bob, tricks to trick and treats to eat.

We have sparklers to wave, rockets to light and jacket potatoes to cook in the embers of the fire.

All of this is to come before we even start thinking about Christmas and all the trimmings.

So this campaign will basically mean that no-one, including all the shops and supermarkets which advertise on telly will be allowed to mention the winter festival until the beginning of December and then quietly until mid-December and after that, let’s say December 15, I will allow a litle bit of whoopin’ and hollerin’.

I’m not a Bah Humbug after all. Just back from Sainsbury’s, where they are selling, alongside costumes for Hallowe’en and fireworks for Bonfire Night, Christmas cards, wrapping paper and a booklet on Christmas gift ideas.

Good Lord. Stop the madness now. It will only get worse in this household, because in previous years I have had a very young child who hadn’t quite “got it.”

Yes, Father Christmas was a nice idea but this year, Father Christmas is his very best friend.

We have been talking about Father Christmas since about early July. So as pictures of him appear in shops, two-and-a-half months before he is due to be seen out and about in these parts, I have a small child, begging to write his letter to the bearded fellow, for all the toys he wishes.

Sitting through 50 adverts in between each programme on TV he “wants” everything.

From Barbies to Dinosaurs. He hasn’t yet firmed up what he would really like, he just wants everything.

I keep trying to explain that he’s not due in for a long while yet but with the shops shoving it down your throat so early in the year how are mums meant to cope with children’s requests?

So maybe Mr Cameron can spend his first Christmas in No.10 banning it, until December. It’s just a suggestion but it would stop me and other mums from going mad this year.