35012 how to celebrate an english christmas
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How to celebrate an English Christmas
1.
Play traditional Christmas music during the season.
2.
Send Christmas cards to friends and relatives.
3.
Select a live Christmas tree to arrange in your home, and hang evergreen branches
indoors.
4.
Encourage your children to write letters to Father Christmas detailing the gifts they
most want. He'll arrive wearing a red or green robe, with holly in his hair.
5.
Burn the letters in the fireplace so the wind can carry the ashes up the chimney and
Father Christmas can read the smoke.
6.
Hang stockings on the mantel so Father Christmas can leave presents inside them on
Christmas Eve.
7.
Go caroling from house to house and collect money along the way. The proceeds are
often kept by children, but are usually given to charity by adults.
8.
Wait until Christmas Day to open gifts. Prepare a traditional dinner of roast turkey or
goose, Christmas pudding (a rich cake stuffed with raisins and sultanas), mince pie and
red wine.
9.
Celebrate Boxing Day on December 26. This national holiday commemorates St.
Stephens and also the alms box at English churches.
10.
Take down your Christmas tree and decorations 12 days after Christmas, or you'll have
bad luck in the coming year. (You'll also want to wait until December 13 to put up the
tree and decorations for the same reason!)
