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Preparing for Christmas

Preparing for Christmas. Stir Up Sunday. One of the first things that is prepared for Christmas in the UK is the Christmas Pudding. A Christmas Pudding should be made a month in advance of Christmas to allow the flavours to develop properly. Stir Up Sunday is the 5 th Sunday before Christmas.

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Preparing for Christmas

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  1. Preparing for Christmas

  2. Stir Up Sunday • One of the first things that is prepared for Christmas in the UK is the Christmas Pudding. • A Christmas Pudding should be made a month in advance of Christmas to allow the flavours to develop properly. • Stir Up Sunday is the 5th Sunday before Christmas. • This year it would have been 20th November.

  3. Traditionally on this day everyone in the family stirs the Christmas Pudding and makes a wish. • A Christmas Pudding has 13 ingredients, symbolic of Jesus and his 12 disciples. • It should be stirred East to West in honour of the three wise men who came to visit baby Jesus. • A coin is normally cooked in the Pudding, and it is believed that whoever gets this on their plate on Christmas Day will have a wealthy year.

  4. Advent • Advent begins on the last Sunday of November. This year it was November 27th. • This is a Church tradition and celebrates the coming of light in to darkness and the arrival of Jesus. • In less religious families Advent is seen as the official start to the festive season and normally signals the start of carols, Christmas shopping and decorations.

  5. Advent Calendars • Most children in the UK will have a chocolate advent calendar. • For everyday in December until Christmas Eve you get to open one window on your Advent Calendar and have a small chocolate. • This is a countdown until Christmas.

  6. Christmas Cards • Most people in the UK will send Christmas Cards to their relatives, neighbours and friends. • These are to wish them a happy festive season and a good New Year. • Every Christmas in the UK there are special edition Christmas stamps.

  7. Christmas Shopping • Most people in the UK start their Christmas shopping at the beginning of December. • Christmas is the busiest time of the year for shops and they always have special displays for Christmas. • All the main shopping centres and streets have huge Christmas decorations.

  8. Special Events • All over the country there are special events just for the Christmas season. • There are many in London and something that is extremely popular is ice skating. • For this reason there are many temporary ice skating rinks in London from the end of November to the end of January.

  9. Ice Skating at Somerset House

  10. Ice Skating at Westfield Shopping Centre

  11. Winter Wonderland Hyde Park

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