It's the Christmas lights switch-on in my local town, Woking, this evening. This will be performed by the leading players in this year's pantomime; they are Gareth Gates, Claire Sweeney and Cliff Parisi, starring in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Christmas items have been creeping into the shops and garden centres for weeks, but the switch-on of lights in a town really signals the start of the 'festival', for such it has become, running for over five weeks to Christmas Day - and indeed, well beyond if you take into account the fact that the panto runs until 16 January (I've never quite understood why pantos run so far into the New Year - can anyone help me?).
But let's join in the spirit! Happiness is in short supply these days, so don't spurn Christmas and its excesses - embrace them (well, not too many of the excesses)!
So, I will be going to watch the lights being switched on (it's indoors so no fear for weather's intrusion) with my wife. The shops will be dressed, the short-term Christmas shops will have appeared, and we'll hear the first airings of all those old Christmas hits.
It's a bit of fun. May I be the first to wish you ...
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