Yearly on the 25th December we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, this day is known as Christmas Day. The word Christmas or ‘Christ’s Mass’ initially comes from the old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in AD440 that the Christian Church fixed a celebration date of December 25th.

It is a special time for family. Many individuals living in different towns, cities and even international locations will make the journey back house to spend the festive season with their family.

On Christmas Day they will have a family gathering and a huge dinner consisting of meals comparable to turkey, brussell sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

Apparently eating turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the Tudor instances and Henry VIII – he was the primary man to eat turkey on this day.

Sending Christmas cards is a large part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being sent in the UK alone. There are lots of genres of cards ranging from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and so on to the more humorous type for friends and kin who enjoy a great laugh.

People buying cards for Mum typically look for the more traditional Christmas card with lengthy, significant versus whereas individuals looking for Dad cards are likely to go for Humour.

The frenzy for buying cards and presents usually starts on the end of November, starting of December. Shopping centres turn into so busy it’s generally inconceivable to move! Queues in shops turn into longer and longer and sometimes a half hour shopping trip can easily turn into half a day.

In recent years with the development of the internet and internet retail companies it has by no means been simpler to shop on-line in your Christmas cards and presents which means avoiding the busying crowds in the high street.

We typically start sending cards at first of December and this continues proper up until the 25th. By mid-December you will normally discover most properties will be decorated with a Christmas tree, colourful lights and paper or foil hanging decorations around the dwelling room.

Others take things one step further by decorating backyard bushes and external partitions with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters comparable to Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extraordinarily widespread within the USA and has been for quite some time.

Santa Claus additionally plays a serious part in Christmas; footage are hung up in the streets, he is on the television and children can even go and sit on his lap at your native shopping centre and inform him the presents they’d like. But where did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or ‘Santa Claus‘ is based on a real individual, St Nicholas.

It is believed that back within the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and determined he wished to assist the poor individuals by giving them money but without them knowing.

It is said that at some point he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a purse full of cash down the chimney which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung up to dry by the fire, which is the place the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney and putting presents into children’s stockings comes from.