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Saturday
January 6 2007
Bring back Little Christmas!
Today is the Feast of the Epiphany, the day when Christmas is officially over and a day traditionally known as Little Christmas or Women's Christmas in Ireland. Tradition dictates that on this day the women of the house should put her feet up and relax while the men run the show for a day.
You hear little about it these days, except the odd passing mention of the old tradition by someone or other on the radio.
Today I took down the Christmas tree, cleaned up all the pine needles from the carpet, packed and stored the decorations and lights, brought the tree to the recycling place, returned furniture to it's pre-Chistmas postions. I also hoovered the house and generally tidied up, went to the supermarket, got some laundry done, cleaned the fish tank, walked the dog and fed fish, dog and cat. In between all this I spent a bit of time in my office catching up on some work.
The men in this house were away for the day visiting friends, and got back just in time for dinner - which I prepared.
Bring back Little Christmas!!
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