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But, with a little trepidation, she got in touch last week to say that at her monthly fair at Chelsea Town Hall on Sunday September 12 a banner will go up outside the venue in the King’s Road inviting the public to start their vintage Christmas shopping now.

Cindy has been organising her popular Chelsea fairs for 26 years so must be doing something right, so we will forgive her this time.

But let us hear no more about Christmas shopping until mid-November at the earliest.