It’s that time of year when, in addition to obsessed retailers beginning their two-month indoctrination of us with incredibly awful corny “festive” music, real hardcore enthusiasts start putting Christmas decorations outside their houses, making the rest of us groan.
Last year about this time I encountered some research suggesting that people who decorated their houses earlier for Christmas tended to be on average happier individuals.
If this is the case, I have a theory as to why it is.
It must be because the sight of Christmas decorations at the start of November depresses the rest of us so much that it deflates the average level of contentment all the year round of the sane individuals who aren’t barmy about Christmas, making the Christmas lunatics by comparison on average happier people.
Perhaps someone could come up with a way of testing this theory.
G Kent
Chapel Lane
Spalding
