Well at least as far as we are concerned we are already in 2016, but if you were one of the 30 inhabitants of the island of Foula in the Shetlands, it’s not even Christmas yet.

As they still use the old Julian calendar they mark Christmas week between the 6 and 13th January. I used to find it tricky dealing with my colleagues on the continent with a time difference of just one hour, so how these people manage their dealings with the mainland with a difference of nearly a fortnight, must be quite something!

Well we might now be getting over Christmas, but it seems that the supermarkets are now busily trying to get us fixated on Easter as it seems they are already stocking their shelves with Easter eggs.  

Perhaps this why if you go to try and buy a winter coat in the Autumn you find that they’ve already sold out and are onto their spring season. Maybe they’ll soon get so far ahead that they’ll be stocking next year’s stock in the right season!

See you again tomorrow,
Scott