To expect shops to carry seasonally-appropriate stock?

[PrettyCandles]

OK, yes, I know this is acompletely unreasonable expectation, but honestly! A couple of weeks befoe the summer holidays, and can I find a luggage strap anywhere in my town? Nope. But there are stands and stands of the new school winter uniform collections.

[grrrrr]

I tried to by DS2 a light-weight summer jacket a month ago and was told in that voice they use for ve-ry stew-pid people that "it is summer".

AAARRRGGGHHH!

The sandals always hit the shops just in time for the first snows of winter ...