The commercial Christmas is in full swing. It starts early, There were some Christmas goods in the shops before we came to Morocco in September. At that time the Christmas TV adverts were for furniture. Buy a new bed or table for your guests and we will deliver in time for Christmas. When we went back at the end of October the main supermarkets were clearing their shelves of Halloween goods and replacing them with Christmas merchandise. Decorations, cards and tins of chocolates and biscuits at that time. We went to London and Covent Garden market already had its decorations and tree up.
The adverts have gone through bicycles and large expensive toys, party clothes and deals on decorations and are now settling down to a last gasp of perfume, food and alchohol. By Christmas Eve the shelves will be empty and the shops more or less deserted save for some few desperate looking men who have left their present buying too late and are scanning the near empty perfume shelves for something for their mother or girlfriend with their mobile phone to their ear whilst they describe to some other friendly woman, presumably a sister, what is left, and accept her instructions as to the most suitable purchase.
Meanwhile pity the poor shop assistants. The shops play special Christmas songs to get customers in the mood to purchase. They tend to be very annoying. The american ones tend to be very sentimental and the british ones have more edge. They are all designed to get you singing when you are drunk. They had started playing them when we were home in October and the poor shop assistants have to listen 8 hours a day for 3 months.
Here are links to some of the popular songs
http://xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=165
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r89CjMZDQpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzczoqLBWAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOe18JcatZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCjrcjFGQCA&feature=watch-vrec
http://xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp?ID=38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpP9Ippfps
Annoying are't they? But every child will know the words to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Jingle Bells and probably lots of the others.
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