By Tony
Hisgett from Birmingham, UK (Robin in the snow 1 Uploaded by Magnus Manske) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)],
via Wikimedia Commons ‘It is a picturesque sight to lounge in a sybaritic arm-chair, in a warm sitting room and watch the fine feathery flakes as they float fantastically down and beautify the brutal bricks and mortar, to see the gaunt and grimy chimney-stacks grow fairy-like and spectral, and the bare boughs of black trees clothed under a foliage of dazzling white.’ Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald, 5th January 1878 Full article on the history of Christmas pudding eating Yesterday's Ancestors' Advent Idea |
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