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’ 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 is a particular time for family. Many individuals living in numerous towns, cities or even international locations will make the journey back residence to spend the festive season with their family.

On Christmas Day they will have a family gathering and an enormous dinner consisting of meals equivalent to 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 within the UK alone. There are a lot of genres of cards starting from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and so forth to the more humorous type for friends and kinfolk who enjoy a good laugh.

Individuals shopping for cards for Mum usually look for the more traditional Christmas card with lengthy, meaningful versus whereas individuals looking for Dad cards are inclined to go for Humour.

The rush for purchasing cards and presents typically starts at the finish of November, beginning of December. Shopping centres become so busy it’s sometimes not possible to move! Queues in shops develop into longer and longer and typically a half hour shopping trip can easily turn into half a day.

In recent times with the development of the internet and internet retail companies it has never been easier to shop on-line to your Christmas cards and items which means avoiding the busying crowds in the high street.

We usually begin sending cards at the start of December and this continues right up until the 25th. By mid-December you will often find most properties will be decorated with a Christmas tree, vibrant lights and paper or foil hanging decorations across the residing room.

Others take things one step further by adorning backyard trees and exterior partitions with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters reminiscent of Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extremely well-liked in the USA and has been for quite some time.

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

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

It is said that one day he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a handbag full of cash down the chimney which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung as much as dry by the fire, which is where the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney and placing presents into children’s stockings comes from.