My sister and I agreed on the way back from Silverburn today that Boxing Day in Scotland is just like a 1960s Sunday. Nowhere to go, nothing to do, nobody on the streets, everybody indoors eating Xmas Day leftovers.
The only thing to do on Boxing Day is shop but Silverburn was pretty quiet. Plenty of parking spaces. Plenty of folk wandering about. Nobody buying much.
And all the TV channels - Sky, BBC, ITV - were talking up the Boxing Day sales.
Can it be true: capitalism feeding itself?
As our American cousins would say: go figure!
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