December used to be the tenth month of the Roman year, and it gets its name from the word 'decem', which means ten.
The Anglo saxons called it 'Winter monath', or 'Yule monath' because of the custom of burning the yule log around this time. After many Anglo-Saxons became Christians they called it 'Heligh monath' or holy month, because Christmas, the birth of Jesus, is celebrated in December.
Christmas Pudding should be made with 13 ingredients to represent Jesus and His Disciples and that every member of the family should take turns to stir the pudding with a wooden spoon from east to west, in honour of the Wise Men.
Some December Superstitions
"On Christmas Eve all animals can speak."
However, it is bad luck to test this superstition.
"If a girl raps at the henhouse door on Christmas Eve and a rooster crows, she will marry within the year." Quite why she would be knocking on the hen house door I don't know !
A mild December precedes a cold snap later in the winter:
"A green December fills the graveyard"
"A clear star-filled sky on Christmas Eve will bring good crops in the summer."
"If sun shines through the apple trees upon a Christmas Day,
When autumn comes they will a load of fruit display."
"Snow on Christmas means Easter will be green."
"A green Christmas; a white Easter."
"If Christmas day be bright and clear
There'll be two winters in the year."
"The nearer the New Moon to Christmas Day, the harder the Winter." ( New Moon on the 29th )
Anyway never mind all the superstision, it is December, it is winter, Christmas is almost upon us, lets just have a nice warming cuppa and a caching blether and maybe some cake and swop any TB's you still have laying about
WHERE : Aroma Cafe , Covesea
WHEN :10:30 ~ 11:30 ish