Whether your Christmas is bah humbug! or a childish delight in lighting the advent candles and eating mince pies, it is almost the night before the night before "when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse". Christmas or the mid-winter festival is a celebration for the 21st century offering the consumer… Continue reading From Magi to Mummers and Wassailing to Wenceslas
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The Revenge of the Gingerbread Men
The aroma in the Advent croft kitchen is delicious and augurs Christmas treats. There are enough spices to fill a potentate's bazaar, jars of dried fruit and dark sugars, bundles of cinnamon sticks and piles of gleaming Satsumas and lemons. The Christmas cake is slumbering in a miasma of brandy in the cupboard with the… Continue reading The Revenge of the Gingerbread Men