Is this a record? Returning from a short break in the Lake District on 29 September, we called into the Hayes Garden Centre at Ambleside.

Not only were they preparing for the Christmas rush, as many of our shops are now doing, but they also had seasonal Christmas music playing merrily away and their nativity scene set up as you walked into the Christmas tree area!

All this before we've even had time to loosen our fillings with treacle toffee!

Mrs L Walker

Rydal Road,

Bolton