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This star of which you speak is surely part of your Epiphany celebrations, no?
And therefore need not be put up until 6th January, no?
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But, if the Magi arrived on January 6th ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif) surely the star would have been around for a long time before, so they could follow it ...?
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Yes, but 2 - 4 years later......
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But, if the Magi arrived on January 6th surely the star would have been around for a long time before, so they could follow it ...?
Good point. Anyway, the tree will be coming down on 6th January, along with the star and everything else except the candle-bridges. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Which brings me to a question that I can never figure out....when is twelfth night- the 5th or 6th?
I know everyone has their own traditions but if I wanted to follow this tradition I'm scuppered as so many people I know don't agree on the date!
Thoughts, oh fellow festive house decorators?
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Which brings me to a question that I can never figure out....when is twelfth night- the 5th or 6th?
January 5th, the 12th night (start counting with December 25), and the Eve of the Feast of the Epiphany.
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In Newfoundland, the 5th or 6th is still celebrated by some as Old Christmas Day, when you might be invited to someone's house for drinks and festive food (possibly made from left-overs).
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I tend to take the decorations down on the 6th, it gives the magi time to actual get to my nativity scene - at the moment they are on one side of the mantlepiece, whereas Mary, Joseph and assorted shepherds are on the other.
I marzipanned my cake today, or at least attempted to. I ran out of marzipan so it'll have to be finished later in the week.
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Tree and cards come down on the evening of the 5th, first thing on the 6th at the latest.
Crib stays up until 4th Sunday after the Epiphany or so - down by Candlemas.
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Pigwidgeon
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My tree is lit for the last time the night of the 5th.
Decorations start to come down on the 6th, in no particular order, as time permits.
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Originally posted by L'organist:
Tree and cards come down on the evening of the 5th, first thing on the 6th at the latest.
Crib stays up until 4th Sunday after the Epiphany or so - down by Candlemas.
Yes, our Crib stays up until Candlemas too.
I love that tradition.
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My wreath fell off the front door and broke yesterday. Is that an omen of impending disaster or just that I didn't fix it on properly?
I got another on today sligthly differently made, so I hope it satys put.
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We inherited a rather pretty wreath which was on the front door of the château when we moved in, but it (or rather its hook) fell off not long afterwards. We still have the wreath; I just need to find another way of attaching it.
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I mailed all my packages today. Tomorrow I hope to do my Christmas cards. It feels good to be on top of things.
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We went through a phase some years ago of people nicking our Christmas wreath (even when it was wired to the woodwork!) so I gave up on those. Besides, putting a hook into our new front door is a definite no-no!
We have managed, this week, to put up our trees, post the cards and order the turkey. Somehow my trees are always secondary to institutional ones - when Dad was head of a village school, the school always had our Christmas tree till after the end of term.
When Mr S was chairman of the Scout group, we never got our tree till after the Senior Citizens' Party - and now that I'm churchwarden I had to organise the church tree and crib first. Maybe that's why we aren't among the Early Adopters for Christmas decorations?
At least the house doesn't look quite so bah, humbug now...
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Today I surprised myself into finishing my Christmas cards. I just now need to surprise myself into getting to the post office this side of Christmas. Last year I damaged both my arms the day before I had planned to get the cards written, so resorted to,e-cards, which I planned to go for this year too, but I've been shamed into sending real ones instead and actually enjoyed doing it.
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Cards were mailed Thursday and Friday, and I started my present wrapping (what little there is of it) today. I'm slowly checking things off my list.
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I don't do Christmas really, but my partner put up a small twinkly fake Christmas tree which looks pretty. And there is a box of Christmas crackers in the kitchen cupboard alongside red and green festive napkins.
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I'm afraid the Palace decorations usually consist of just the received cards, strung up over the living-room.
OTOH, the Church looked nice today for the Carol Service, with bits of holly and poinsettia arrayed on the aisle window-sills, to complement the Advent Wreath near the altar. We set fire to lots of candles around the place, too, so suitably festive, albeit Advently restrained.
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Jengie jon
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Bishop Finger
I think that this webpage from the Order* of St Clare at Freeland may be what you were looking for.
Jengie
*Roman Catholic ones are all 'Poor Clares' so the Order of St Clare was up for taking when they were founded.
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Bishop Finger
I think that this webpage from the Order* of St Clare at Freeland may be what you were looking for.
Jengie
*Roman Catholic ones are all 'Poor Clares' so the Order of St Clare was up for taking when they were founded.
I like the simplicity of those cards.
The Anglican nuns at Jamberoo on beautiful south coast of NSW make many things but their candles are especially popular for baptisms.
Link here.
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Bishops Finger
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Thanks, Jengie - that's where my colleague bought them from, though the page illustrated was last updated in 2011 ! Presumably, they've produced new designs since then.
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Those cards are lovely - beautifully simple.
We had our carol service this afternoon, and while it was mostly lovely, two things rather spoiled it: the lessons were taken from some ghastly, inferior translation (i.e. not the AV); and someone (I don't know who) has decreed that the Christmas tree in the Cathedral shouldn't be lit until Christmas Eve, so it was there, but unlit, and I can't think of anything more depressing than an unlit tree. Even D., who's usually a bit bah-humbug about Christmas decorations, reckoned they ought to have turned on the lights. He's going to make recommendations at the next staff meeting.
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Decorations went up yesterday with help from husband and third daughter. Interesting listening to them discussing the stories about each ornament-
lots of water under many a Christmas bridge!
I still have a lot to do this week and am not at all well.
But oh, how I love this time of year and so am banking on that bubble of Joy to carry me through to next week.
Watch this space!
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Today and tomorrow are forecast as very hot for Sydney . Christmas Eve will be around 40 and then back to more reasonable 24 on Christmas Day itself. I hope people can take those sprouts off the heat. Heat makes them smelly.
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Thanks, Jengie - that's where my colleague bought them from, though the page illustrated was last updated in 2011 ! Presumably, they've produced new designs since then.
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They had more designs in 2011* those were only illustrative. The problem is finding out what they have in.
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*I am judging by those I bought about 2007.
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I've now sorted out my UK pressies (visit to the Wine Society's web-site fixed that in about half-an-hour flat).
A couple of local (within Canada) things to wrap and post (really must get that done tomorrow) and another batch of red-pepper jelly to make, and I'll feel that I'm on top of things.
We were rather knocked for six last week, because D. pulled a muscle, and wasn't feeling like doing anything, and I had a filthy cold, and wasn't feeling like doing much more than that.
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Decorations and tree up, some presents wrapped and under tree, turkey and other comestibles procured. Mrs S is making curry puffs (which always go down well and we have an order for a dozen) and it looks like we may have as few as four at our table on 25th December, which will be a change. For better or worse, I can't say. I think we will have more on Boxing Day.
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My wreath is hung, as are my Christmas cards. I'm not dealing with a tree this year. My Nativity will go out when I return from this morning's church service, and Baby Jesus will join the rest of the gang after Christmas Eve service.
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Packed for my trip to my daughter's for Christmas. Just waiting for my brothers to get here in a couple of hours, and the rental car to be picked up, and we'll be off.
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) safe travelling for all on their journeys to Away, or Wherever.
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Isn't "Away" where the Manger was?
Merry Christmas to all!
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Pressies wrapped ready to be distributed later; now listening to King's on the I-player while D. plays for the children's pageant and early-evening Eucharist before picking me up for Midnight Mass.
Merry Christmas, everyone! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Yes, Happy Christmas, and God bless us, every one!
No sprouts, but I have a couple of nice pieces of chicken, with bacon, and stuffing, cooking up in the Episcopal Palace's coal-fired range. A baked spud, a glass or two of French vin rouge, and some French cheese to follow.....
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That sounds rather delicious, BF.
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O, it was, it was......
Toast + Marmite, plus Toast + squished BANANA, for tea!
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Finally got the tree* up at midnight on Christmas Eve, followed by wrapping a present for my neighbour and organising presents for my daughter, which rather counted out Midnight Mass and 8am.
* tree is fake and new†, which had my daughter posting pictures of its patheticness on the book of the Face as I unpacked it. She willingly found the nativity set and miniatures, but not the tree, which she is disdaining;
† I had two others, but both got left at previous two workplaces, one because I had two, the other because this is the first Christmas at home for several years.
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Size isn't everything when it comes to trees - it all depends on the size and type of space it's going in.
There's a house up the road from us that has one gable wall that's completely glazed showing a big, double-height space, but no visible decorations* at all. If it was my house, I'd have an absolutely huge tree standing in the window space with bazillions of white lights on it.
Ours is 5' tall and quite narrow, which suits fine, as it fills the height of the sitting-room window, but doesn't take up too much horizontal space on the table it's sitting on.
I'm pleased with how it looks, with just a couple of dozen silver baubles and a couple of hundred white lights.
* I suppose they may have decorations on the side of the house that faces away from the road, or have none at all.
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* tree is fake and new†, which had my daughter posting pictures of its patheticness on the book of the Face as I unpacked it. She willingly found the nativity set and miniatures, but not the tree, which she is disdaining;
Trunk is furry and the branches on bottom two thirds are mostly bare which really shows. You can see how the fake foliage is attached to the bare metal.
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It isn't that unrealistic, says the person who has decorated countless real trees (for the annual tree festival in church) and spent time rearranging such trees to hide their many imperfections in shape and the bare branch sections. It also didn't help that the photographs were taken before all the branches were disentangled and pulled into position.
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Sometimes you don't need greenery at all - I've seen a couple of pictures of twigs and branches, sprayed white, with a few baubles and lights wound round them and they look lovely.
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My parents' tree, since they moved to the current house, has been a tall branch sprayed white, decorated with lights and elegant glass baubles on different length strings. It works because it's in the hall of a house, attached to the staircase and they have an outside shed to store said branch*. My grandmother did something similar when she still lived in her marital home. I can't think of anywhere it would work in this flat.
* I have also been on expeditions to collect a suitable branch, left it to dry out and then painted it.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
* tree is fake and new†, which had my daughter posting pictures of its patheticness on the book of the Face as I unpacked it. She willingly found the nativity set and miniatures, but not the tree, which she is disdaining;
Trunk is furry and the branches on bottom two thirds are mostly bare which really shows. You can see how the fake foliage is attached to the bare metal.
We have a rather elderly fake tree, and two years ago I read somewhere that to pimp it up a bit, what you need is green tinsel. Masses and masses of green tinsel.
Guess what - it really works! You can push it in between the branches to hide the trunk, and it also adds a bit of glimmer to the whole thing. I know it's too late for this year but get on down to B&Q or somewhere and buy up all their green tinsel in the sales!
Mrs. S, keeping this tree another ten years at least
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We were away from 22nd - 27th and before that we had the Colds From Hell, so never got round to decorating at all this year.
However, since we ate out on Christmas Day, we have taken the opportunity to make ourselves a special meal for new year instead.
Tonight began with citrus marinated prawns, followed by ginger glazed ham (Mary Berry's recipe from this year's 'Party' programme, and a cracking recipe it was too), roast potatoes, mustard sauce, and braised red cabbage with apple.
To follow there were home made mini pavlovas.
Everything was delicious and there are plenty of leftovers for tomorrow too!
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First sighting of Hot Cross Buns in our local Co-Op today, so that's where Xmas has gone!
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