Boxing Day Just Around The Corner

Boxing Day takes place each year on December 26, the day after Christmas. 

Both days are rooted primarily in the spirit of giving. 

Boxing Day is celebrated in the United Kingdom and other British Commonwealth nations such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. 

While there are no religious ties in those nations, it does have religious connections in Ireland and Spain, where it is known as Saint Stephen’s Day.

Boxing Day has also been adopted in other European countries, such as Hungary, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands, where it has become the second day of Christmas.

According to legend, the name Boxing Day dates back to Queen Victoria’s time on the British throne. 

In those days, the royal family and others in the upper echelons of society would box up gifts for their servant staff as well as gifts for the poor. 

The day after Christmas was traditionally a day off for all servants and employees, who would bring the boxed gifts home as Christmas presents.

The Philippines Christmas Parol

 

We post this every year and we want to share it with you yet again.

Do you know which country celebrates Christmas the longest? 

If you guess the Philippines, you are correct. 

Christmas is celebrated early in the Philippines, we’re talking early November.

You can hear Christmas carols being played, the streets starting to be decorated with Christmas decorations.

These decorations include the traditional parol, a five point star-shaped Christmas lantern (something like a Pentagram) which has been a time-honoured Christmas symbol in the Philippines. 

 

You see parols hanging in every street and road of towns and cities, outside almost every Filipino homes, in schools and office buildings, shopping malls, and even churches during the entire Christmas season which usually starts as early as November. 

There is no other Christmas symbol in the Philippines that shows more warmth than these Christmas lanterns called parol. 

These Christmas lanterns are very unique to the Philippines. 

Parol-making is a traditional folk craft of Filipinos. 

It is even taught to school children. 

Schools hold lantern parades every year to showcase the artwork of these students. 

Christmas and Mrs.Claus

 

Marks and Spencer in 2016 offered up this holiday campaign, directed by King's Speech director Tom Hooper. 

The story featured new character - Mrs. Claus, the wife of Santa. It's fun, interesting and something different.

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