Fun fact: Norway sends a real Christmas tree to the UK every year (since 1947), as a THANK YOU gift for the role Britain played in the Second World War, to help them. It gets erected in Trafalgar Square in London. It is usually a Norwegian spruce, over 20 metres high and 50 to 60 years old. It is selected from the forests surrounding Oslo years, in advance. The Norwegian foresters who look after it describe it fondly as 'the queen of the forest'. The tree is felled in November during a ceremony in which the Lord Mayor of Westminster, the British ambassador to Norway and the Mayor of Oslo participate. It is brought to the UK by sea, then completes its journey by lorry. A specialist rigging team erects and decorates it in traditional Norwegian fashion, with vertical strings of lights. The tree remains in Trafalgar Square until just before the Twelfth Night of Christmas, when it is taken down for recycling. The tree is chipped and composted, to make mulch.

She missed out the bit about putting a coin in one portion of the Christmas pudding. Whoever found it was supposed to have luck for the next year (as long as you didn't choke on it!)

Boxing Day - the name comes from a time when the rich used to box up gifts to give to the poor, it was also a day off for servants and they would receive a box gift from their masters. They would then go home and give a box to their families. Stockings contain gifts from Santa - traditionally larger gifts are under the tree and from your family. The Christmas pudding usually has a coin hidden in it and the person who finds it will have good luck for a year.

Tom Smith, a baker from London’s East End invented the Christmas cracker over 150 years ago. On a trip to Paris he came across French sweets (candies) wrapped in paper. They proved a hit at Christmas time so he included a love motto inside the wrappers. This inspired the introduction of a Christmas cracker. It was supposed to imitate a crackling log fire. Eventually the crackers included a paper hat, silly joke and a cheap novelty. Example- What did Adam say to his wife on the 24th of December? “It’s Christmas, Eve.”

Burning letters to Father Christmas is an old thing not really done today as most people don't have open fires. I worked for Royal Mail and any letters addressed to Father Christmas were sent to a department set up for that purpose during the run up to Christmas. Now he has his own postcode: Santa/Father Christmas, Santa's Grotto, Reindeerland, XM4 5HQ and if ther's a return address they get a card from Santa and you can have one in Welsh if you ask (nicely). Oh! and the last day to send letters is tomorrow to guarentee a reply so be quick. :-)

As well as the brandy and mince pie for Father Christmas. We also leave a carrot for Rudolph! LOL

Boxing day isnt always about shopping, thats a very recent thing. Traditionally its when we got dragged to see EVERY aged relative and eat buffet food A LOT. And yes its usually a bank holiday but its on a Sunday this year so we get an extra day off the week after to make up for it. And yes we drink A LOT at Christmas, even people who dont normally drink. Even kids. I was drunk most years growing up 😄

We KNEW as kids that Papa Nöel was real, because the mince pie and glass of port we left out for him had both gone by the morning. The glazed look on our grampa's eyes at 06.00 escaped our attention!

The best bit about Christmas as a kid was waking up to the stocking at the end of my bed and opening presents sitting on the bed. It was always little things like colouring books and pens and stocking filler gifts, and of course the satsuma and walnut. Then we would get to wake the parents up and go down stairs to open the 'big' presents.

Hi everyone! We got the video out, late but we got it! Jazz was snoring next to us the entire time. We would love comments about the origins on most of these. Please Like the video & thank you for your continued support & love. We truly appreciate you all during this very difficult time for our family. We hope you enjoy our Christmas Episode! 🎄

I loved in on Christmas morning, all I had to do was kick the foot of my bed to check if "He'd been" .If there was a thud he had😅. A big pillow case was the stocking equivalent in my case. This tradition continued one year when we were all back home with mum and dad for various reasons even though we were in our 30's.❤🎄🦌

My mother told me Father Christmas would bring me presents as long as I kept believing in him. My sister and I are in our 50s now and still believe and still receive presents. Admittedly, we now help Father Christmas to find each other's presents, but it's good to keep some magic alive.

Haaaaaaa! Debbie cracked me up! "Why the piece of cheese?" Ha! The 'cheesy' gift inside the cracker is not made of cheese, Deb's! lol Cheesy means rubbish/cheap. Love the trees, girls, especially the pine cones! x Have yourselves a GREAT Crimbo! x

She forgot to add, but still important, is how many of us still turn out, even in snow, for Midnight mass on Christmas Eve at our local church. There is a carol service, and often we are handed a candle as we go in to light up and hold during the service.

Boxing Day is great, maybe better than Christmas Day! It’s just Christmas Day: Part 2 - nurse hangovers, drink more, eat more, relax watch amazing TV. It’s Christmas Day without the stress of the main day. And yes, we have it off work.

As a child I was terrified of Father Christmas (a big strange man) sneaking in my bedroom whilst I was asleep to leave presents, so I told my parents I wanted him to leave them in their room instead... thus unwittingly making their lives A LOT easier as they didn't have to wait until I was asleep and try to sneak into my room without waking me up.

I remember as a kid putting the socks at the end of the bed. When we woke up and it was full of nuts, an orange and sweets then you'd know that Santa has been.

Queen Victoria's German hubby Prince Albert brought the Christmas Tree to the UK. The alcohol is burned off xmas pudding.

Quite a few Christmas traditions (including the tree) are German. The were introduced by the German Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.

I love the Boxing Day meal with cold meats leftover from Christmas Day, special cheeses and fancy pickles. Oh, and we have trifle for the main pudding. Yum!

In the coal fire days the kids would write a letter to Father Christmas [ never Santa] and hold it above the fire and the draft would pull it out of your hand. It would fly up the chimney. Leaving the children with the feeling someone had pulled the letter from their hand.

Can't remember if you're already aware but, just in case you're not, mince pies consist of mixed fruit, spices and possibly a dash of booze in a pastry case. In medieval times they were filled with meat but fruit and spices started to be added, either to disguise the taste of rotting meat or to bulk out the meat. In Victorian times the meat was left out entirely leaving us with the sweet treat we know and love today.

Check out the Welsh Christmas tradition of Mari Lwyd. It's a bit like Halloween meets Christmas. Adds a little stuff of nightmares to proceedings.

Gr8 to see you both. And learn Jazz is not in pain. And I didn't know about the letters to Santa in the fire! xxx😁💕

During the Stuart and Georgian times, in the UK, mince pies were a status symbol at Christmas. Very rich people liked to show off at their Christmas parties by having pies made is different shapes (like stars, crescents, hearts, tears, & flowers); the fancy shaped pies could often fit together a bit like a jigsaw! They also had pies which looked like the 'knot gardens' that were popular during those periods. Having pies like this meant you were rich and could afford to employ the best, and most expensive, pastry cooks.

Hi ladies. I'm British and I'm 54 years old. I have never heard of hanging stockings on the bed in my life. When I was a child in the70s my dad would fill a stocking with fruit, chocolate and small toys and slip into my room when I was asleep and leave the stocking at the end of my bed, but on the bed not hanging anywhere. Of course I didn't know it was my dad I firmly believed it was Santa. Also we do call him Santa as well as Father Christmas. Love to you both. ❤️

Yes, Boxing Day is a bank holiday/public holiday. It is also a day many of us stay in Pyjamas and eat leftover Turkey sandwiches and lots of chocolate. It is also often a day to see extended family for more celebrations. Fruit cake is lovely!!! And she hasn’t even mentioned mince pies, small pies filled with juicy spiced sultanas and raisins.

Leaving a stocking at the end of the bed with some small gifts in it is actually quite sneaky. It means the kids have something to do in their room which can give you an extra half an hour before they come and drag you out of bed. 🤫

As a postman for Royal Mail, letters to Santa don't require a stamp and we have a whole office set up for Santa and if you supply a name and address inside, you will get a reply

As an American growing up in the UK we adopted UK traditions like hanging a stocking at the end of the bed, pigs in plankets is a must! But we had cranberry sauce not bread sauce, but bringing my kids up in France they would leave their shoes by the fireplace hoping Santa will fill them with treats and France don't do Boxing day. By the way your trees are gorgeous.

Main Boxing Day tradition is dragging the whole family out for a walk! To blow the cobwebs off your hangover, usually through country parks, or along the beach.

When we say Mince Pie. It isn't minced meat. It is fruit with a soft sweet pastry. Can be eaten cold or warm with some ice cream/brandy butter. It is enjoyed throughout the Christmas season. It is separate from the Christmas Dinner. As far as boxing day is concerned I was told that it has the name because that is the day that the boxes from presents were put outside to be collected by the bin men. I was also wondering if you have heard of sugar mice. They started in Victorian times I believe, this is when sugar being expensive was more available to the general public. Which is as it sounds sugar moulded into the shape of a mouse with a little string tail, this is another traditional treat put on the Christmas tree not very common now although still available. But similar to the more modern chocolate decorations.

Boxing day is goes back to when the wealthy would allow there staff to go home to visit family , also box up the presents for the staff , this was the age when people would be in service .

I am a CHRISTMAS NUT! I LOVE EVERYTHING about Christmas!! So I really enjoyed this show so very much!!!!

My great Grandmother who worked in a stately home as a teenager told me that servants only got one day a year off work to go and visit their families. They were given a box of gifts and foods to take with them and as Boxing Day was their only day with their own families. It was originally called unboxing day.

Christmas Crackers are also called Bon Bons in Australia, she was correct it's not Xmas dinner until everyone is wearing their paper crown.

Hey Natasha and Debbie. You don't have to boil the Christmas Pudding, you can steam it and it is gorgeous! Lovely channel. x

Twelfth Night is when the three magi (wise men/kings?) arrived following the star of Bethlehem, that’s when the tree can be taken down. Yes, it isn’t the ‘setting fire’ to your letter to Father Christmas, it is the letter disappearing up the chimney winging its way to its destination. Magical. Unfortunately with most homes now lacking a chimney and a fire, this has died out. Also, we had our stockings laid on the bottom of the bed at night and when we awoke they were magically full of little presents - always an orange at the toe end and nuts at the heel. My mum started making the Christmas pudding October/November. Everyone had a stir of it with a huge wooden spoon, to bring luck. The brandy was warmed before pouring over the pud and the flaming dessert (burning off the alcohol) brought in with a flourish. But personally I’ve not experienced that for 60 years!! Happy Christmas 🎉

Xmas tree down…12th night (last supper reference there). Bacon wrapped sausages are called pigs in blankets. We also cook stuffing, a a sage and onion mix with pork sausage meat. Boxing day is leftovers with salad and pickles but that’s a Yorkshire thing. Most people hate sprouts but we often fry them with bacon and other things, depending on the recipe. Another weird thing we do in Yorkshire is serve Xmas dinner with Yorkshire puddings and apple sauce (boiled up apples with sugar). Otherwise we have cranberry jelly. Queen’s speech is always at 3pm, so there’s always a mad rush to finish up before gathering round the TV at 3.

We do have Yorkshire Pudding with our Christmas dinner and lots of stuffing, I usually have sage and onion and thyme and parsley stuffing. The Romans used to wear hats at their feasts. Crackers were made by a sweet confectioner in 1847 in order to sell more sweets, the person who gets the bigger part of the cracker wins what is inside, there are some very expensive ones with real jewellery in them. The carol "Good King Wenceslas" celebrates the feast of St Stephen "Boxing Day".

Christmas crackers are a traditional Christmas favorite in the UK. They were first made in about 1845-1850 by a London sweet maker called Tom Smith. He had seen the French 'bon bon' sweets (almonds wrapped in pretty paper) on a visit to Paris in 1840. He came back to London and tried selling sweets like that in England and also included a small motto or riddle in with the sweet. But they didn't sell very well. In 1861 Tom Smith launched his new range of what he called 'Bangs of Expectation'! Legend says that, one night, while he was sitting in front of his log fire, he became very interested by the sparks and cracks coming from the fire. Suddenly, he thought what a fun idea it would be, if his sweets and toys could be opened with a crack when their fancy wrappers were pulled in half.

thank you ladies for taking the time to do this great video at a very difficult time for you both i always look forward to your videos massive hugs for you both and as always my prayers are with you both and tyson and jazz take care

Didn't do the letters in the fire because we had a gas fire. Stockings in bedrooms are so kids have something to open and play with like lego, so it keeps kids in their room and not waking adults up too early. Christmas Day and Boxing Day are bank holidays - because they are the weekend this year we get time in leau so 27th and 28th off work too, wahoo! A Yorkshire pudding is good with Christmas dinner, a small one. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and your dogs are in our prayers.

Absolutely love your channel. We would have the presents under the tree as usual but on Christmas eve the kids would get a 30 second feel to try and guess what they have. Then on Christmas Day we would open our presents after dinner and before the Queens speech. Now our own difference. We would put 2 presents each back under the tree. one is opened on Boxing Day and the last one on New Years Day. We felt it kept the surprises through the whole holiday and made the tree still look pretty. Blessings from Sam in Birmingham, England.. Love to the dogs.

Most Christmas traditions started in Victorian times, Charles Dickens started it with A Christmas Carol Not everyone hangs the stockings around the bed, when I was a child it was all downstairs, Crackers are fun, my uncle used to wear his hat from the cracker all day! The chipolatas wrapped in bacon are called Pigs in Blankets Sprouts are fine if boiled for 7 minutes. Boxing Day is a holiday Its not compulsory to drink heavily. Proper fruit cake is great, as long as its moist with Cheddar or Wensleydale cheese eaten with it

It is fairly recent that shops opened and sales started on Boxing Day. Everything always stayed closed ! We often visited relatives we hadnt seen at Christmas, or invited friends around for a cold lunch and a few drinks.

Christmas crackers are a traditional Christmas favorite in the UK. They were first made in about 1845-1850 by a London sweet maker called Tom Smith after a trip to France.

Christmas crackers are table decorations that have a paper hat shaped like a crown a plastic item and a joke,when my kids where small we left out milk and biscuits, we also left a carrot fir the reindeer.

Very sorry to hear about Jazz, I completely understand your state of mind. We had to have a very treasured pet euthanized a year ago. To make it worse, it was on the wife's birthday. In our house growing up, the stockings were hung from the foot of the bed. We left a bottle of beer and a mince pie for Santa. Alternatively, we could leave a bottle of beer and piece of fruit cake. A desert for Boxing Day is trifle. With the flag. If you hang it, make sure you hang it the correct way up. If you hang it upside down, it means you are in distress. That is a naval tradition that enemies of England never figured out. Especially in the age of sail - Napoleonic time - if a British ship was captured by an enemy, they would try to fool any other British ship by having the crew raise the Union Jack and then stand on deck. The crew would raise the flag upside down to signal that all was not well and that the ship had most likely been captured. This of course caused shock and horror amongst the enemy aboard the vessel when the other British ship(s) opened fire on it. Enemies of that time never did figure out how other British ships knew what was wrong.

All of those are definitely standard for every Christmas of my life, except the letter burning, but I've never lived in a house with a real fire!! As Christmas and Boxing Day are the weekend this year, Monday and Tuesday are Bank Holidays. Hope all goes well with your dogs, pets really leave the deepest paw prints on your heart.

Dear friends, I believe that Boxing Day was originally the day when the alms chests (charity boxes) in parish churches would be opened and all the money inside distributed to the poor of the parish. Later it became a tradition for richer people to give a present box to their servants on December 26th (the Feast of Stephen mentioned in Good King Wenceslas). It's so good to see all the cards and gifts that people have sent to you both but, please remember that for every coin, card, flag or recipe book, there are at least 10 of us sending love and best wishes to you all at this particularly grim time. Stay strong and hold on to happy memories.......................................the ancient Englishman.

The stockings on the bed are a parents way of getting some sleep Christmas morning. The kids wake up early, of course, but hear the rustle of wrapping paper by their feet, open their presents from Santa and that keeps them busy for an hour or so playing with new toys while parents have a lay in. Just like the letters in the fire saving a stamp, British parents are cunning 😎

The 12 birds of Christmas are the cards from the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) and it's one way I can donate to their charity, I've sent them to all my friends this Xmas. Graham x

In my house the Christmas stocking would be placed at the end of the bed while were were sleeping. It was always one of my dads socks, never one of these fancy christmas stockings you can buy. Inside was always fruit, usually a tangerine. some nuts, a piece of coal and some small gifts and thats it. Our main presents were always in a big sack downstairs. We were allowed to open the gifts in our stockings as soon as we woke up and could choose 1 gift to unwrap from our sack, the other presents we had to wait until all the family was there before we could open.

Debbie, there IS no cheese in a Christmas cracker...

We used to leave a whisky and shortbread for Santa. It’s a tradition for our family to have trifle for Christmas pudding. For 40 years the same trifle bowl has been used, it’s in my possession now so for the last 20 years it’s my job to make the trifle. Christmas was banned in Scotland for around 400 years which is why we Scots tend to celebrate Hogmanay more than Christmas xxxx

Yes Boxing day is a bank holiday the same as Christmas day and the good thing about it is that if either or both of those days fall on a weekend we get the Monday, or Monday and Tuesday off as a holiday as well....

***Debbie misheard her at **7:03** thought she said cheese in plastic... oops 😬***

The trick with smoke post is to place the letter above the flame and let the warm draft lift it up the chimney. It looks magical when it works so a small, light weight leaf of paper works best.

The sausages wrapped in bacon are better known as pigs in blankets! Our house never had crackers mum always said they was a waste of money lol 😂!!! Never heard of burning a letter to Father Christmas, was always a mince pie and whisky left out here! Hot custard is poured on our Christmas Pudding, ppl used to put a six pence in them years ago

In our house, Father Christmas gets a mince pie and either a glass of port or wine and we leave sprouts and a carrot for the reindeer. Stockings in the bed was awesome as a kid as it’s the first thing you see when you wake up. There is NO cheese in a cracker (though I’d totally enjoy that!) it’s a ‘cheesy’ joke (as in a crappy one). I don’t like Christmas pudding much as it’s too rich - much richer than fruit cake. I make either a steamed chocolate cake or sticky toffee (both called ‘puddings’). Pantomimes are awesome. We go every year. Interactive, innuendo-laden jokes, men dressed as women… what’s not to like!! Oh and because Xmas day and Boxing Day are both at the weekend this year, we will have Monday and Tuesday as public holidays, so a 4-day Christmas!

The first 'Christmas crackers' were created by Tom Smith, a sweet maker in London, around 1845. He developed the idea from the almond sweets (Bon Bons) wrapped in gorgeous decorative paper that he saw in Paris in 1840. He took the idea to another level altogether.

Hi ladies, our Boxing Day derives from giving the poor a parcel of foodstuffs. Most people probably don’t realise that nowadays but it’s a very old tradition. We used to love having our stockings at the end of the bed so as soon as we woke on Christmas morning we knew Father Christmas had been! It always had a satsuma and walnut in with lots of chocolate! Christmas pudding is very rich and an acquired taste! Crackers are obligatory and so are hats, it’s all good fun! Love the videos, and so sorry to hear about your poorly dog. Love from Staffordshire England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The reason we put our decorations up 12 days before Christmas and twelve days after dates back to Tudor times or before when there was literally 12 days of Christmas beginning on the 25th of December and ending on the 5th January and every day had a different purpose. Gifts usually weren’t given until the fifth they were mostly feast days

Stockings are left by Father Christmas and include small gifts, chocolate money, satsumas, walnuts and last but not least a Terry's Chocolate Orange. Childrem are allowed to open their stockings when they wake up but presents under the tree have to wait for animals to be walked, fed etc. Happy Christmas!

We tended to put out pillow cases in the living room for our gifts, not in the bedroom.

Traditions vary around the country.our stocking were hung on the fire place. We didn't leave brandy and mince pies.and our gifts were put in the sitting room.again she is genralising. And we do not drink so we don't use alcohol.

I’m from the UK and growing up my sister and I always had our stocking downstairs. Never in our bedroom , although our parents did. We left Sherry and a mince pie. My mum likes Sherry. All makes sense now haha. Christmas Crackers are the best. Have to wear your paper crown for dinner. I have a small head so mine always falls off 😐. The cheesy gift isn’t actually cheese, it means it’s a bit of a rubbish present ☺️. The mince pies aren’t mince meat. It’s like currents and raisins in a sweet sauce. Also my birthday is Boxing Day, the day after Christmas! So the main thing for me on Boxing Day is pretty much doing Christmas all over again! We do get the day off work, it’s a bank holiday. Well those of us who get bank holidays off get the day off. As a child we wrote letters to Santa but we posted them. Can’t stand Christmas pudding or Christmas Cake!

One year when we were kid's my brother put his letter to Santa straight onto the fire without showing it to our parents - he insisted it was private. So they never found out what he wanted for Christmas that year... :)

Nice video. Nice outfits. Very sophisticated.

Also on Christmas day you save back some of the Vegetables and potatoes that then on Boxing day is all chopped up and mixed together then fried this is called Bubble and Squeak and is served with a mixed salad, cold meats cheese and different chutneys and pickles. This is my favourite meal 🥰 also we have another gift which is called a tree present as it’s normally small and has been hanging on the tree. My family actually have another Xmas Dinner on the 12th day of Christmas then we take all our decorations down.

Wow Natasha I didn't know that, very well done for admitting it to so many people, I sometimes wish that I didn't drink, but I do enjoy a few pints

If you want a Scottish tradition, which isn't strictly a Christmas tradition but a Hogmanay (New Year) tradition, you need to hope for a First Footer. This would be the first caller at your home after midnight. Strictly, it should be a tall dark male. They should come with a gift which is symbolic of bringing luck to the household for the coming year such as coins or whisky. My favourite of the possible gifts that might be presented is a lump of coal. The gift-giver might hand this over whilst saying 'Lang may yer lum reek', which literally means 'Long may your chimney smoke' and is a wish for a long, healthy life.

Want to wish you both a great festive season. I have worked in alcohol and substance misuse for the best part of 15 years, and there is nothing more wonderful than helping someone get their life back following addiction. It's the greatest thing ever! Very proud of you, and send you both my best 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A bad fruit cake is awful but a good one is delicious. Yes everything is soaked in booze (my mums christmas pudding is basically a lumpy cocktail) which is fantastic for me, I love a drink. However Christmas is the one day a year that I usually can't drink as I'm usually driving everyone about. I hope Jazz has the best time left to her and an easy and peaceful passing.

I am with you Natasha I am an ex alcoholic and Christmas for me is very hard as I watch my daughter and brother drink. I look young but my daughter is 21. I had to quit 6 years ago. For me it gets harder. Sometimes i want to so bad but I know I’ll end up in hospital

The tree rule is the same whether it's real or a fake tree. Actually in my family my dad was the only one that age the Christmas pudd, as the rest of us in my family don't like it. 🎄 Hope you get through the sad times, it will be another Christmas without my parents, miss them lots, we are all here for you guys too with love & suport.❤️

Tom Smith, a London confectioner in approx 1845-1850 went to Paris and saw their Bon Bons wrapped in pretty paper..he decided to make them back in the UK, later adding a moto and a snap to them..My wife and I both work in Theatre and our Pantomime begins this Friday! Cinderella! It will be a magical 4 weeks, especially as last year's got cancelled because of covid! I've never thrown a Santa letter into the fire, always mail them (or pretend to mail them) Boxing day is just an extension of Xmas day..over eating, tv, drink..although most people do work, we have 2 Panto performances on Boxing day, shops are open etc. Never left Brandy, was always Milk, a mince pie and a carrot for Rudolph. Stockings can be left at the end of the bed, but mainly by the fireplace. Pigs in blankets on Crimbo dinner (small sausages, wrapped In bacon..yum! Bread sauce is yuck, prefer cranberry sauce.

The pudding Dark fruit cake laden with fruit, peel, spices drizzled with hot, thick Birds (brand) custard.

That's a cool Ten Shilling note (commonly called a ten-bob note) - I haven't seen one of those for ~50 years. Since 15th February 1971, it's been replaced by a 50 pence (pennies) coin.

Lots of people put there trees up quite early now. When I was a kid the room decorations and the tree went up 2 or 3 days before the big day. Everything was always taken down promptly on 6th January (Twelfth Day), and and I think that is still fairly general.

When we were kids, we hung a pillow case at the end of the bed, Father Christmas also left us some nuts (in shells), a satsuma and some brand new pennies.The idea of having our Christmas gifts in the bedroom meant that we would play with the toys instead of waking our parents at an ungodly hour. The lady did not add that the Christmas pudding traditionally contained a silver sixpence. You both made me laugh when you misunderstood the expression cheesy, it means rubbish. In our house my Dad poured a tot of flaming brandy over the pudding, in the kitchen, then we would all sing the pudding in to 'God rest ye merry gentlemen.

I love both of your Christmas trees🎄. I've just started collecting Christmas ornaments that remind me of my dad and mother in law. The thing I like having on Christmas day is a hot mince pie and a cup of tea for Christmas morning. 🤶🎅☃️🐕

I wouldn't equate the Queens Christmas speech to the American state of the union a better equivalent to the state of the union would be the State opening of Parliament speech. The Queens Christmas speech is better described as a feel good speech that sums up and reflects on the year highlighting big events and what we have to be thankful for.

The best thing about Christmas dinner for me is Brussel sprouts ( with bacon and chestnuts) and roasted parsnips ( glazed in maple syrup) lovely, Merry Christmas to you and yours 😀

Have you heard of Mince pies? I think they're called mince because originally contained meat but now just full of mixed dried fruits, brandy and spices in a pastry case and we serve them traditionally with brandy cream which is a thick fresh cream laced with brandy. They're available everywhere at Christmas and are absolutely delicious. Have a Merry Christmas. xx

I beleive the reson we leave out brandy for Father Christmas is because my dad likes brandy and the Christmas pudding is soaked in booze because it means it keeps for weeks afterwards if you don't finish it. Most people have turkey at Christmas but the tradition would be to have a goose, turkeys originate in the Americas but we breed them for Christmas now.

Thank you for another great video ladies. Boxing Day is traditionally a sale day for retail. Though this year there are a lot of shops that will not be open. In Christmas crackers you get a paper hat, a joke and a novelty gift for example a small screwdriver or a corkscrew for wine. Sending lots of love from Lowestoft the UKs most easterly town.xx

Love your take on life ,thank you ladies

Have Wonderful Christmas Ladies, & God Bless your two 🐕! ⭐🎄🇬🇧👏👍

Once again another great video Ladies. So much Love & Warmth always comes through from Your videos & They are always such a joy to watch. I'm so happy that more & more people are sending You more love within comments, wishes, prayers & gifts, You both deserve it. I'm still & Will continue to send love & prayers for Your Babies, Love & Warm wishes as Always "Your Mugger" Paul XxX

When my kids were little my husband used to leave a can of beer,mince pie and a carrot for Rudolf. We also say Santa. Father Christmas is usually a bit posh and used on TV. My mother used to put my stocking at the bottom of the bed but I put my kids stockings in the sitting room. In fact we used Santa sacks which are quite large. For dessert we normally have trifle which is a British dessert.. I do love Xmas pudding though. Boxing day is a holiday. Yes you can shop but it's more like eating crap and leftovers and watching TV. Also can be a day for visiting relatives and friends .

My stocking wasn't over my bed,it was at the end of my bed.

1) never heard of burning letters to Father Christmas! 2) I used to have all my presents by the bed! 3) Why crackers? Because they're fun! Some in Canada have crackers too! 4) never heard of bread sauce, but did not have cranberry sauce until I moved to Canada! 5)we never set our Christmas pudding on fire but had custard on it (like Vanilla sauce) Boxing Day is most of all a day off work! Most stores here do NOT accept returns on Boxing Day! Christmas pudding is like a moist fruit cake, We, UK and Canada, aslo have Christmas cake which is a fruit cake topped with icing and Marzipan. Pantomime is a a whole new world for you! Lots of cross dressing, and cross gender, ribald humour that goes over the kids' heads, audience participation . "Oh yes he does" "OH NO HE DOESN'T"! great video!

So sorry to hear about your poor dog, Jazz. Please accept my very best wishes from London, UK. 'Crimbo' is the dialect word for Christmas from the city of Liverpool. Crackers were invented in the 1840s as a novelty and table decoration. They originally contained sweets. To make bread sauce: peel a small onion and stick about 10 dried cloves into it. Simmer this and about 10 whole black peppercorns and a bayleaf in half a pint of milk for about 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and leave for several hours / overnight in the fridge. Strain out the solids and keep the flavoured milk. Add white breadcrumbs made from half a loaf and gently reheat. Add a little salt to taste. It should be quite thick, so add a few more breadcrumbs if required. It's traditionally served with chicken or any poultry. The recipe is my grandmother's dating from about 1900.

Strictly adults only pantomime is Jim Davidson Sinderella with the late great Charlie Drake. Most of it is ad lib and very funny, well worth the watch.

When I was a child we used to hang our stockings at the end of our beds 😊. Usually the stockings were a pair of our mother’s clean stockings. My Brother and I used to wake up at some ungodly hour ( usually around 4 or 5 am ! ) and we would both run into our Parents bedroom to show them what Father Christmas had left us lol. It was a magical time. We used to get sent back to bed once they had seen what we had and weren’t allowed to get up again until at least 8am lol. Then the fun would begin again after breakfast when we got to open our main Christmas presents 😍. Christmas during our childhood was a magical time ❤. I love your Christmas tree with all the birds and animals on it. So cute. X

Nah, no one I know goes shopping on Boxing Day. Boxing Day is Christmas Day 2.0 but better, it's the day to relax, pig out on left overs and really get to spend some quality time with the fam without all the stress and expectation of Christmas Day. There's a pop song that was released a few years ago called Proper Crimbo, a novelty Christmas song which is a giggle but people do say Crimbo now in conversations.

We used to have 3 or 4 Christmas trees up each year around the house. And take them down around new year but never longer

Although I’m English, my parents always used to get my youngest sister an Oor Wullie and The Broons annuals - we older siblings used to get Rupert the Bear books.