Every year 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’s a particular time for family. Many individuals residing in numerous towns, cities or even countries will make the journey back home to spend the festive season with their family.

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

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

Sending Christmas cards is a huge part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being sent within the UK alone. There are many genres of cards ranging from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and many others to the more humorous type for friends and kin who enjoy a superb laugh.

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

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

Lately with the development of the internet and internet retail corporations it has by no means been simpler to shop on-line on your Christmas cards and items which means avoiding the busying crowds in the high street.

We generally begin sending cards originally of December and this continues right up till the 25th. By mid-December you will often find most houses will be decorated with a Christmas tree, colourful lights and paper or foil hanging decorations across the living room.

Others take things one step additional by decorating backyard bushes and exterior partitions with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters akin to Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extremely well-liked within the USA and has been for quite some time.

Santa Claus additionally performs a significant part in Christmas; photos are hung up in the streets, he is on the television and children may even go and sit on his lap at your native shopping centre and tell him the presents they might like. But the place did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or ‘Santa Claus’ is based on a real individual, St Nicholas.

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

It’s said that sooner or later 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 as much as 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.

Edythe Griffith