Given that our house is the sole remaining island of black sanity amongst the blinkenlights of my neighbours, and that it's impossible to avoid adverts for xmas goods on the tv or radio (though you'd be impressed how many adverts I don't see on the internet :D) I found it necessary to put pen to paper - or at least, finger to keyboard - and update a ditty traditionally sung in about a month...

Christmas is coming; the geese are getting fat
Please put a tenner in Jeff Bezos' hat
If you haven't got a tenner, a fiver will do
If you haven't got a fiver, then even a quid will do
And just click here for a month's free Prime...

Not a celebrant of this time of year? A time almost universally depressing in at atmosphere of forced cheer, when the suicide rate is highest? How did you guess...?

Neil (I feel better now!)

Well after that probably any message of disaster will be greeted with a smile