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The tree,cards and decorations have all come down.
We only have the outside tree to do now.
Everywhere looks bare.
Still, it's my birthday next week and I will have choccy cake!

cycle cat wrote:The tree,cards and decorations have all come down.
We only have the outside tree to do now.
Everywhere looks bare.

Oh well,never mind,only 11months and 2weeks to wait before it all happens again

Still, it's my birthday next week and I will have choccy cake!

Happy Birthday in advance,have a one day choccy cake feast

reohn2 wrote:Oh well,never mind,only 11months and 2weeks to wait before it all happens again

Sainsburys commence Christmas on 02nd September. Only 7 months and 3weeks to go

gbnz wrote:

reohn2 wrote:Oh well,never mind,only 11months and 2weeks to wait before it all happens again

Sainsburys commence Christmas on 02nd September. Only 7 months and 3weeks to go

I was trying to be optomistic( as opposed to just optimistic)ie;look further into the future

We saved time but not putting any up this year.

Ebenezer Scrooge had the right idea!

Steve Kish wrote:We saved time but not putting any up this year.

Ebenezer Scrooge had the right idea!

But look what happened to him!

Easter is soon as the shops have hot cross buns for sale now.

But look what happened to him!

He ended up with a load of money, didn't he?

The Co-op have got mini Easter eggs in

Our local Tesco's seem to gave H-X-C buns in all year, still prefer Greenhalgh's thou, boo hoo won't help the post-crimbo diet....

Yes as soon the Crimbo stock was cleared, the shops around here had mini eggs in.

Could somebody explain to me why it is that the decorations come down on the 6th? By my counting, that makes it the 13th day! First day, the 25th....twelve days later is the 5th. What am I missing please? That Christmas day is not the first day of Christmas????

They should come down on the 5th. The 6th is the feast of the Epiphany, which is the twelfth day - in mediaeval times sunset was the start of the count, so the night preceded the day (as with the Jewish Sabbath, of course).

You are correct that it appears to be the 13th day though. Remember of course that if days begin at Sunset, and Christmas begins at midnight (naturally enough that's going to be the time Christ's birth is traditionally assumed to occur), then the 26th is the first full day of Christmas.

More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas if you want to be thoroughly confused.

I have known churches however which followed older traditions and kept decorations up until Candlemas. The Christian season of Christmas ends then, 2nd Feb. The Sundays between Christmas Day and then are Christmas 1, Christmas 2, Christmas 3 etc. The Sunday between 2nd and 8th Jan is also the celebration of the Epiphany. The whole thing lasts 40 days.

But I digress.

Redvee wrote:Easter is soon as the shops have hot cross buns for sale now.

Happy Easter everybody.

(Morrisons in Pontefract were selling 'em last Wednseday )