SWHAND reliably informed me that we need to take them down on the Saturday which is after all the 12th day as they don't need to be down until the 12th night. Unfortunately she was WRONG!
Happily our Xmas tree is fake. So I vote we can take it and the lights down late! Otherwise they need to stay up all year!Ever since the unfortunate accident with the Xmas Tree and a saw, I haven't been allowed to have a real one. Just as well really as I don't have the requisite baby elephant to dispose of it!
The human units have some quaint customs related to the end of the Christmas Period: from chasing and killing Wrens, Lewd behaviour on the Feast of Fools, to the rather more gruesome custom of the Celtic Queens who had their new consort kill her old one on the 12th Night. (Some let them last 7 years others just the one! But that's pagans for you!) Incidentally, anyone know where in the bible the three kings arrive? The closest I can get is three gifts delivered by an unspecified number of Zoroastrian sorcerers, wise in the ways of astrology. I have found at least 6 names for them...Wonder if the Gremlins will strike during the dismantling phase? Watch this space...
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The main question is what they bought Baby Jesus for his second birthday. After you've done gold, frankincense and myrrh you're really stuffed. Unless you do handbags I suppose...
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