Christmas Isn't Over ... It's Only Just Begun ; One Writer Urges Us to Celebrate All 12 Days of the Season

Daily Mail › December 26, 2005

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SO YOU think it's all over? That Christmas finishes today and from now on, there's only New Year's Eve to look forward to?

I have an uncle who, at the close of December 26 invariably remarks, in a dispiriting way: 'Well, that's another Christmas over.' He's wrong, as it happens.

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Christmas Isn't Over ... It's Only Just Begun ; One Writer Urges Us to Celebrate All 12 Days of the Season

Christmas, as the carol reminds us, properly goes on for Twelve Days, not three. In traditional terms, we should just be getting into our stride.

The original feast starts with the vigil of Christmas Eve, and goes right on from there, with pipers piping, drummers drumming and l...

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