WE COULDN’T WAIT FOR THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY!

Christmas trees up in NOVEMBER? Yes, they’ve simply found a wonderful way to beat the gloom...

PUTTING up your Christmas tree long before December has always been considered rather vulgar, with traditionalists sneering that any earlier than the start of Advent — the fourth Sunday before Christmas — is really not the done thing. Until now, that is. The latest lockdown has prompted swathes of women to rip up the festive rule book in order to deck their halls super early. Here, SADIE NICHOLAS meets five women who are embracing Christmas this year by going early — and big — with their decorations.