American Couple Reacts: How to Have a British Christmas! Special Christmas Episode & PO Box Gifts
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- American Couple Reacts: How to Have a British Christmas! Special Christmas Episode!
Join us on our Christmas episode! See our Trees, see our P.O. Box gifts at the end of the video. We learn in this video How to have a British Christmas! Some things really surprised us! We always appreciate your continued support for us. We hope you enjoy this video and it puts a smile on your face. Please give us a Like and consider Subscribing to our channel.
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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!)
I just replied to @Robin Finnerty about the silver sixpence my mum would put in the Christmas pudding. Except whoever got it, she would exchange for a small gift and put the coin away until the following year... And yes, I used to dream about eating and choking on it - LOL!
My cousin hated christmas pudding, but he would always have some, just for the chance to get the sixpence.
she also forgot Christmas cake
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.”
would you adam and eve it
As well as the brandy and mince pie for Father Christmas. We also leave a carrot for Rudolph! LOL
Really??? If so that's awesome
Although I have lived in London for many years, I come from the Wirral. As a kid it would snow around Christmas, so we would build a snowman in the garden. I remember that we WOULD stick a carrot in his face as a 'nose' and use two pieces of coal as 'eyes'... but on Christmas eve we took his 'nose' to leave out with a mince pie & a 'drink' both being for Father Christmas, but the carrot was for Rudolph!
The pieces of coal were for New Years eve, and taken to the neighbours to 'first foot' (my dad was Scottish). Also, the cracker pulling happened immediately after we sat down for Christmas dinner and everyone had to read out the joke, wear the paper hat all the way through and could only take it off after watching the Queen's speech...
Mum would stick a silver, 'sixpence piece' in the Christmas pudding, the person getting it during the meal then handed it back to her, in exchange for a small gift (she then put the coin away until the following year...}, I often wonder what happened to it?
Mustn’t forget the carrot for Rudolph. Our parents used to put out the mince pie and drink for Father Christmas when we were all tucked up in bed.
Yes a carrot for Rudolph, but my kids used to leave a beer and a mince pie. Father Christmas told me he doesn’t like brandy 😉
@@krissyg7026 It was always a sherry and mince pie in our house, not forgetting the mandary carrot for Rudolph. Mum would put out the mince pie and carrot while Dad poured the sherry. They would set them on a low table in front of the fire just before we went up to bed.
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!
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 😄
Wow!
Yeah I was allowed to drink at Xmas as a kid… pretty common in the uk
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.
not all of us have the day off, only a select few jobs are given the day off as standard.
And one of the best days of the football season for many fans
Boxing Day is a Bank Holiday, so yes; most people will not be working.
@@rogoth01themasterwizard11, it's a Bank Holiday, obviously some people are working, but most people have it off.
And, if you have to work, then you'll get paid time off in lieu, or extra pay for working it.
@@gillianrimmer7733 no, you don't, all extra payments were stopped years ago, and the 'time off in lieu' was stopped a few years back in most sectors, also, most people do not have it off, it was only due to the pandemic that retail chains decided to give it off last year and some are still divided on doing it this year, prior to the pandemic, all retailers were open and it was a normal work day, and seeing as retail was and is the largest employer sector, 'most people' did not in fact get it off, that's not even touching the emergency services/military that are required to be staffed 24/7/365.
Queen Victoria's German hubby Prince Albert brought the Christmas Tree to the UK. The alcohol is burned off xmas pudding.
Really? That is fascinating and we didn't know!
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
Oh yes I love that about boxing day!
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 .
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.
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. ❤️
Quite a few Christmas traditions (including the tree) are German. The were introduced by the German Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.
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.
Stockings at the end of the bed make sense. It gives the parents an extra 30 minutes or so in bed.
How does one fit presents in a pair of shoes though?
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KattyKitty66, you didn't mention the French tradition of a seafood (fruits de mer) platter on Christmas eve.
I've never had bread sauce (whatever that is) - we always have turkey and cranberry sauce (or "Turkey Jam" as my sister dubbed it)
The lady in the video seems to be from the upper-middle class ... NOBODY I know has ever had bread sauce - always cranberry with their turkey on Xmas day.
How that happened, I don't know - must have been an idea we got from USA Thanksgiving.
Even the turkey itself.
"It's Xmas, it's Xmas, the goose is getting fat ..."
No it isn't - it's turkey these days,
I am a CHRISTMAS NUT! I LOVE EVERYTHING about Christmas!! So I really enjoyed this show so very much!!!!
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.
Debbie, there IS no cheese in a Christmas cracker...
😂 She said cheese wrapped in plastic... ? Lol
It's a cheesie plastic toy in the cheep cracker as you pay morey you get better toys
@@marydickinson2917 went back and listened, thought she said "Cheese in plastic!"
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. 🤫
Indeed, when my kids were small we had a rule not to wake us before 7am, they could open their stockings and play with them. To be fair i was usually awake a lot earlier than that and i loved going in and watching them play with all their stocking stuff on xmas morning.
My stocking was always by the fire, I must be a yank
We always hung a pillow case :D
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.
***Debbie misheard her at **7:03** thought she said cheese in plastic... oops 😬***
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 🎉
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
My Granfa use to wear his hat all day too, he said it kept his head warm. Boxing Day to me is when all the family meet up.
most are german traditions
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😎
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. :-)
I worked for RM years ago too, and I remember any letters sent to Santa/Father Christmas addressed for Lapland, actually did get sent to Lapland.. Anything that said North Pole , or Fairyland etc etc were sent to Belfast ! 😂 I remember a sticky greasy envelope once that obviously had a biscuit in it for Santa ☺️😆
Most new houses don’t have a fireplace so we post them to Santa.
@@catshez I expect they still go to Belfast as that is where the Returned Letter Branch is, so they must be experts at opening mail and returning them quickly.:-)
@@Beejay950 Yes I reckon so... I only know this because I was on international mail and missorts, nightshift, and always have told my friends with children, if you want your letter to get to Father Christmas direct , send it to Lapland, Finland ! 😉
Must be a fun job in Belfast though, always thought it seemed a great job being the only ones legally allowed to open "the Queen's mail"
😄😂
I’m British and never heard of putting them in the fire
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
Absolutely LOVE it, thank you so much!!
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.
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
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.
We did exactly the same ...best times ever ...Christmas has become too much peer pressure now and completely commercial
@@debbie8674 ...yes it's Santa's way of saying be good for next year 😂...we then use it at New Year's to let in the New Year to bring warmth and prosperity to the home carried in by the eldest darkest haired male of the house with a slice of bread and butter symbolising food, warmth and prosperity ...however if a fair haired female let's the New Year in it symbolises bad luck for the year 🤷🤦xx
Nice video. Nice outfits. Very sophisticated.
Aw thank you!
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Thank you for your sweet reply.
Well sweet compliments certainly deserve sweet replies!
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
Not to be confused with the American pig in a blanket, which is not the same thing.
Sorry didn’t know American’s had pigs in blankets else would of clarified that 🙈🙈
@@racheltopp4968 I think they're a sausage wrapped in pastry. I could be wrong.
Thank u for that! So basically a British sausage roll?
@@racheltopp4968 not far off. But an actual sausage rather than sausage meat and I think it's shortcrust pastry.
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.
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!
We tended to put out pillow cases in the living room for our gifts, not in the bedroom.
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!
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... :)
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!
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.
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....
Not fair!!
Or BOTH this year
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.
The pudding Dark fruit cake laden with fruit, peel, spices drizzled with hot, thick Birds (brand) custard.
I'm a 38 year old Brit and I've never heard of burning the letters in the fire... We also never put stockings on the bed or had bread sauce either.
However, my mind is blown that you don't have christmas crackers and paper hats. 😆
Christmas pudding is disgusting by the way, we usually go for a sherry trifle instead.
We used to, then again I'm ancient 😅😅
I'm 48 and when I was a child our letters were burnt on the fire, most houses these days don't have a fireplace so it's a tradition that's definitely gone now
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!
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.
First off I absolutely adore both of your trees, they are absolutely gorgeous, second I have never heard of anybody burning letters to father Christmas, third I nor my family have never hung stockings either by the fire or in the bedroom our stockings have always been filled by father Christmas or his elves and left with the main presents/gifts, fourth Whisky and a mince pie, we never even thought of Rudolph, fifth yes we had crackers when I was a child and again when my children where young and still at home, now I just have them as decorations on the tree, Roast turkey yep, carrots, broccoli, sprouts, roast potatoes, sage and onion stuffing though this year I'm trying chestnut/hazelnut and thyme stuffing and gravy....proper gravy not what Americans serve with biscuits (scones), Christmas pudding yes I have that but much later in the day because I'm usually stuffed after dinner, I usually lace it with whisky (no apologies for my Scottish ancestry) and douse it with cream, boxing day is a bank holiday and I love fruit cake especially covered in marzipan and royal icing. Continuing to send love prayers and strength to you girls 💖🙏💪 and much love strength and prayers to Jazz 💖💪🙏 xxxxx Edit there is no cheese in the crackers. Edit 2 usually Christmas trees are supposed to be taken down by twelfth night ie January 5th, twelfth night relates to the 12 days of Christmas, on the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree, 1st day being Christmas day, so on the twelfth the tree should be down. My mum was really superstitious and always said if the tree and decorations weren't down by 12th night they had to stay up but had to come down by shrove Tuesday burned and cook pancakes over the flames for lent.
I’m 86, stockings were hung up with apple, orange, nuts, and chocolate inside, larger presents were inside a pillowcase which was placed at the end of the the bed. As soon as we woke up, we lifted our legs and feet to feel if it felt heavy, if it didn’t, then he hadn’t been yet and so we went back to sleep, if he had, then it was manic, us running around shouting out what Father Christmas had brought us. What fantastic days they were, yet there was a war on. Always managed to have a merry time, even with our dads away.
@@maureenede6695 Awww that's lovely Maureen, yep we had nuts, chocolates, orange, tangerine, a 'red' apple, some new shiney coins and a few small gifts in a stocking but they where never in our bedrooms, always downstairs. I have a cousin called Maureen (Mo), wishing you and your family all the very best for Christmas and new year 😊👍🎄🎅.
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.
I'm 62 and still have to get my Broons annual.
Best Wishes to all four of you!
both your Christmas trees 🌲 look absolutely beautiful x
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.
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.
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 .
Father Christmas isn't posh, just what he was called before US TV and the like started being shown here. I never used Santa.
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.
Wish you too a lovely Christmas girls
I’ve never burned a letter to Father Christmas… never even heard of that ‘tradition’ in my 50 years!
Bread sauce is very easy to make but surprisingly good.
What exactly is it?
It’s probably easier if I give you a recipe.
Poach one onion in water (roughly a pint) until soft (it is traditional to stud the onion with cloves, but I don’t as I don’t like the flavour, it’s up to you).
Remove the onion and add milk to that there is twice as much liquid as before. Add salt and white pepper and reheat until almost boiling.
Add white bread (not crust) and blend with a hand blender until you have a consistency similar to porridge.
Adjust seasoning to taste and serve as and accompaniment to Turkey. X
Have Wonderful Christmas Ladies, & God Bless your two 🐕! ⭐🎄🇬🇧👏👍
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. 🤶🎅☃️🐕
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 😀
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
We would also decapitate local snowmen and use tomato sauce for blood in the neighbourhood for effect
Xmas when I was a kid was the best
Traditionally we used to have goose or duck for Christmas dinner. Turkey is a kind import from America 👍
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
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
We love our mugger!! Thank you for such kind words, you're very sweet! ❤
Daddy told the kids to leave a Brandy and mince pie out on Christmas Eve so that when the children go to bed he can enjoy a nice Brandy and mince pie, then the children will see the glass empty and the pie gone on Christmas morning...thus giving the impression that Santa has been.
I remember going to my grandma's as a kid and I'd write my list to santa and put it in her fire. I always looked forward to it
You are lovely souls. Bless u both xx
Some crackers are super expensive with more expensive gifts inside but the jokes and paper hats are still the same
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.
Don’t forget that Jim Davidson actually made two adult pantomimes, Sinderella and Babes (or is that Boobs) in the Woods. Both of them are hilarious and you can find both of them online.
Your tree is amazing! How unusual, the animal theme is so original. Love the idea of of your 'mommy tree', keeping alive those happy memories. You two girls are class. Love watching your stuff xx
I never had Christmas stockings in the bedroom, I was spoilt and had a pillowcase at the end of the bed filled by the morning! You have absolutely beautiful trees!
The stockings in the bedroom is a way to keep the kids in there rooms for an extra hour or so that way you don’t have to get up so early
Point 1 we don't burn the letters we let the warm updraft draw the sheet of paper up the chimney as a letter in an envelope will be too heavy and fall in the flames plus most houses don't have open fires anymore to do this
The crowns in the Christmas Cracker are to remind us of the Three Kings, The small gift is to remind us that that giving is the best thing in Christmas and the joke is to remind us to be merry well according to my Grandmother at least, An old tradition was to put a silver sixpence in a Christmas pudding and whoever found it had good luck all year, The mince Pie and Brandy for Father Christmas is because he’s hard working all year round, And a Carrot for Rudolph because……well he’s the best, We usually pig out on food wise at Christmas passing round the chocolates and Turkish Delights after dinner while the Queen gives her speech live on tv, Then there Christmas Tea usually Christmas Cake and Sandwiches if you want them and Sausage rolls too mmmm!, All of this is mostly washed down with booze gallons of the stuff, Then sometimes board games are played if there isn’t an evening Movie on tv (well a good one at least) more booze sweets and various other things send the kids to bed, Then more booze and food…..notice the food soaks up the booze……Hic! , Then the last one to bed turns the lights off, The booze side of it is mostly because we are British and it’s what we do, But there are lots of Alcohol free drinks too and Virgin Cocktails so nobody is left out of the fun, Then there is the great British tradition of the relative who ends up crying fighting or rowing with everyone and they are not seen again until next Christmas then you remember what they did last Christmas.
As a 43 year old brit I have never heard of throwing letters to father christmas in to the fire.
Not all Christmas pudding have alcohol in them. We serve it with cream or vanilla custard traditionally. Delicious. Crackers are just a piece of light hearted fun. Stockings in bedrooms are fairly traditional and are the gifts from Father Christmas and are usually fairly low cost presents. Family gifts are given later in the morning where generally everyone opens their presents together.
now thats how i do it plenty of colour but you can still see some green
36, from England and never heard of the burning of letters.
Stockings, all over the place, was always on our banister growing up.
Was always told it was whiskey/brandy to keep Santa warm...
Boxing day is a big day for football/soccer. Mainly used as a day of recovery after Christmas. It's a Bank Holiday.
Christmas tree is beautiful
Thank you
we put pillow cases at foot of bed, send letters to santa in post box, never heard of fire idea,we do have crackers and crowns, boxing day for bus is another feast,and family meet up, we dont go shopping,i cant wait to take the xmas tree down, and forget all about crimbo
On Christmas Eve, children in the UK often leave out mince pies with brandy or some similar drink for Father Christmas, and a carrot for the reindeer.
Than you girls I really enjoyed this video 💕
I think Boxing Day is a German thing where they gave presents the day after Christmas, so as not to besmirch a holy occasion. The British royal family are Germanic. The (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) errrrr Windsors. Queen Victoria married a distant cousin (don't they all) called Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and all things German became fairly popular in Britain and some things stayed like Boxing Day, except we already traditionally gave presents Christmas morning so the day after thing never caught on but the name for the 26th of December stayed.
You can buy Christmas cake and Christmas puddings that have no Alcohol in them you can also get Vegan versions these days
Many families in the UK have their own traditions as well as those mentioned in the video.
To get my sister's friends kids to go to bed on Christmas Eve, she would ask me to call them and pretend to be Father Christmas, telling them that I was really close, but unless they were in bed, I couldn't come into the house.
Talcum powder sprinkled onto the soles of a pair of shoes and dabbed on and around the fireplace to represent snow was another trick used to convince my sister's own kids "He" had been was another, along with the "I believe bell" which they had to ring before going to bed so that the big red man would know how to find the house!
Most origins came about during the victorian period and mainly from Prince Albert.
Certainly the Christmas tree and decorations came from Germany and Prince Albert.
Boxing day is indeed a Bank Holiday.
Never heard about the letter in the fire.
On a personal note, my family Christmas traditions were:
Christmas Eve, cooking the turkey and having a hot turkey cob (bun) for supper.
Watching "It's a wonderful life" with my parents.
Christmas day, exchanging gifts. Christmas lunch with turkey and either a joint of pork or beef, chipolata sausages, roast potatoes, sprouts, carrots, cauliflower cheese and mashed potato.
Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
Party games in the afternoon and evening with family.
Sandwiches later in the evening.
Boxing day, around to grandparents for afternoon tea and dinner. Could take a present you had on Christmas day.
Those were the best days....
Oh to turn the clocks back 40 years.
Use Scottish Skirlie instead of stuffing, you'll never look back. Check out recipes online but it's essentially fat, chicken stock, onion, oats and spices. Make sure you buy a medium to thick cut hard oat and never flaked or rolled oats.
Boxing Day is a public holiday in U.K. A lot of people spend it recovering from the day before😅
With Christmas Cake (and Pudding) its not soaked in Brandy, but seeped in a mixture of Brandy and sugar solution. A small amount is added every week to build up flavour as well as preserving the mixture. The Brandy soaks into the fruit and cake mixture, helpting to create an intense flavour before cooking. They come pre-cooked these days, but for serving Christmas pudding it should be wrappend in muslin cloth and steamed until (re)cooked. Served hot in a darkened room having had a liberal coat of brandy first which is sent on fire as it arrives in the table (a good one is still flaming on your plate/bowl). It used to include a small coin (a sixpence piece) which would go the the lucky recipient. Its usally served with a white custard (no egg yokes) or Brandy/Rum butter/cream. Its not a flavour that many younger people like any more.
The French have a similar tradition of putting coins in, with their Galette de Rois, which is made in early January to commorate the arrival of the Three wise men at the Stable (the finder wears a hat and is crowned family king for the day).
Christmas Pudding is just one of a series of now almost extinct (steamed) puddings which were very common from the medieval to quite recently. I used to get Jam and Ginger pudding both at home and at school back in the 70s. Jam Roly-Poly (made with suet rather than just butter) in another similar sort of cake. They're all far too unhealthy (sugary) for anyone to cook today so have almost disappeared from anyone's typical diet.
The word,"Crimbo" makes me wince. I've never in my 68 years listened to, or gave a monkey's, about the queen's speech. I will say though, I've always considered 'Christmas' to be a period of the year stretching from the days leading up to the 25th until, at least, New Year (and, having Scotch blood in the family through marriage - 'first-footing'; the ritual of having a dark-haired male bearing a piece of coal and salt to bring good luck to the house, being the first to cross the threshold on New Years day), and wouldn't dream of taking down decorations before the 6th (or leaving them up a moment longer), even though I'm not the least superstitious! ;-D
There are various versions of Boxing Day, including that's the day you open your gifts because on Christmas Day you'd be at church, wouldn't you??? The most important thing about Boxing Day, however, is .... ta da ..... an extra day off work!
My daughter always left a glass of Jack Daniels out for Father Christmas. He ALWAYS drank it all 😂
Monopoly is a must on Boxing Day too!
Another British tradition is putting a coin, usually a Thrupence or a Sixpence ( Tanner ) in a scone on birthdays. It stopped when a child choked.
We used to stick our letters up the chimney, new houses don't have them so they do now get posted. You need to do a reaction to pantomimes fascinating history and there are some for adults Jim Davison sinderella is infamous. Other famous xmas traditions are the blokes sleeping in the armchair after dinner, kids throwing up with too many sweets, nan starting drinking baileys at breakfast and someone treading on a bit of lego. Boxing day there is always football and horseracing. If you want to adopt a xmas tradition, pigs in blankets.
Firstly, my heartfelt sympathy for what you are going through with your dog, my boy is getting very old (he's 17) and is getting weak and very shaky on his legs. I'm preparing myself to face the same journey you are on in the next few months. We also have fruit cake that we call Christmas cake always topped with a layer of marzipan (almond paste) and icing. I love it. I'm also the only person in our family who likes Christmas pudding so my Uncle always buys me one which I eat all to myself after Christmas as we don't have it on the day due to nobody else wanting it, it always lasts me 2 or 3 days. Happy Christmas to you and lots of love and prayers for your four legged friend, I hope that the terrible day, when it comes, is as peaceful and painless as possible.