Happy Christmas!

Sending Happy Christmas Wishes to everyone who pops in to read my ramblings.

A little bit of weather lore

If Christmas day on a Thursday be,

A windy winter you shall see;

Windy weather in each week,

And hard tempests, strong and thick;

The summer shall be good and dry,

Corn and beasts shall multiply..

A little bit of history

Christmas wasn't celebrated in the early church. It was the year 336 or 354AD (depending where you find the information) when the Nativity was officially celebrated in Rome on December 25th. The true date and the year of Christ's birth are not really known, but probably between 4 and 11 years earlier.

Christ was born 'in the days when Herod was king of Judaea' but  Herod died in 4BC. He was also born at a time when  'there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed'. Historians date this census at some point in the years 7-11BC.

But either way we've been celebrating the birth for a Very long time.

Hope you have a good celebration today wherever you are and whatever you are doing.

I have a feeling that by the end of the day celebrating with my family I'll be needing a quiet Boxing Day!