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If every day were Christmas

If every day were Christmas

Wednesday, 28th November 2007

The rise of the Christmas shop

Last spring I noticed that some Cotswold shops still had their Christmas decorations up. When they were still sporting Santas in the summer, I took a closer look and discovered that these were ‘Christmas shops’. What’s more, these shops suddenly seemed to be everywhere — in Burford, Lechlade, Broadway and Bourton-on-the-Water — all roughly within a 20-mile radius.

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