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

It’s a particular time for family. Many people living in different towns, cities or even countries will make the journey back dwelling to spend the festive season with their family.

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

Apparently consuming turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the Tudor occasions 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 many genres of cards starting from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and so on to the more humorous type for friends and family who enjoy a good laugh.

People shopping for cards for Mum typically look for the more traditional Christmas card with prolonged, meaningful versus whereas people looking for Dad cards tend to go for Humour.

The rush for purchasing cards and presents generally starts at the end of November, beginning of December. Shopping centres become so busy it’s sometimes inconceivable to move! Queues in shops become longer and longer and typically a half hour shopping trip can easily turn into half a day.

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

We typically start sending cards originally of December and this continues right up till the 25th. By mid-December you will often discover most houses will be decorated with a Christmas tree, vibrant lights and paper or foil hanging decorations across the residing room.

Others take things one step additional by adorning backyard timber and external walls with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters equivalent to Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extremely widespread in the USA and has been for quite some time.

Santa Claus also performs a significant part in Christmas; footage are hung up within the streets, he is on the television and children may even go and sit on his lap at your native shopping centre and inform him the presents they would like. But where did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or ‘Santa Claus‘ relies on a real particular person, St Nicholas.

It’s believed that back in the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and decided he wished to help the poor individuals by giving them cash but without them knowing.

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