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9:38am on Friday, 6th January, 2006:

Twelfth Night

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Its being Twelfth Night and all (hey, where are my lords a-leaping?), we're taking down the Christmas decorations. Well, we're taking down all but the three we'll find after I've hauled everything back in the attic (having deliberately waited a few days so that any we missed are sure to have turned up).

Anyway, in one of the boxes we keep decorations in I found another weird old Christmas card. This one is from Nepal:



On the back is a scree about old age in Nepal, but inside are the traditional wishes for Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Other countries do things differently at Christmas... I was in Singapore once in the New Year, and they played carols in the hotel resolutely every morning right until the 6^th of January. They had "the world's largest Santa Claus", four storeys high, which they decapitated on the 7^th so as to begin transforming him into "the world's largest Chinese God of Luck" ready for the Chinese New Year.

Is it true that nowhere else but Britain do they have Christmas crackers?

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