Saturday, December 26, 2009

boxing day

GetAttachmentI don’t know why I persist in calling the day after Christmas Boxing Day, except that there is a soft spot in my heart for many English traditions.

 

 

 

 

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It is a time for family, parlour games and sports in the UK. The traditional recorded celebration of Boxing Day has long included giving money and other  gifts.

In the UK,  it certainly became a custom of the nineteenth century Victorians for tradesmen to collect their "Christmas boxes" in return for good and reliable service throughout the year on the day after Christmas.

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Today, I celebrated boxing day with the Claytons. We went searching for boxes and exchanged gifts we found with gifts we had. We also dropped our trackable coin that is traveling to states and countries bordering oceans. So…geocaching has some things in common with boxing day. We cached several of the Mt Dora Ghost Walk series, including number 5 called Diving Into Eternity. Thankfully, the only thing that took a dive today was Debbie’s glasses.

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