There's a "computer and mobile repair shop" on my local high street. You know the sort. The window is too full of stuff to even begin seeing any of it. Neon signage, phone covers, bits of computers and more (needless) gadgets than you can shake a stick at.

In this midst of this array of finery stands proudly posed, for reasons that were never clear, a life-size shop dummy of a man. Seasonally apposite (though now surely inviting endless bad luck for the computer and mobile repair shop), he is dressed in a Santa suit. For less clear reasons (remember the shop's purpose), the dummy clasps within his hands a saxophone. Attached to the resounding end of the instrument is a neon orange cardboard starburst: "only £95!"

The shop owner clearly knows something of his customer's wants and wishes that a less imaginative soul could surely never have predicted.