Happy 12th Night

[Carol]

Tonks wrote:
>
> OK. all the other Holidays are over, right? So here is a Happy 12th
day of Christmas to anyone who want to enjoy it. Carol, Geoff and ???
> 
> Went to a gather yesterday and gave and got some presents. And going
to another one later today. We use to have a proper 12th night party
when we had a Deacon who had a Harpsichord. What fun that was. The
Three Kings come on Sunday. 
> 
Carol responds:

Hi, Tonks. I remember, as a child, making cardboard crowns and
covering them with foil to wear in an extension of the Christmas
pageant at church. IIRC--and it was a long time ago--we laid cans of
food for the poor at the foot of the Christ child (a doll) on Epiphany
Sunday (which this year is the day of Epiphany itself). 

I'm starting to take my Christmas decorations down today, but I'm
leaving the tree itself till last, which means that it will probably
come down on Epiphany rather than Twelfth Night (tonight). Too much
other stuff to do. (At least, Epiphany is conveniently on a weekend.)

Happy Twelfth Night/Epiphany to those few who celebrate them and no
offense whatever to those who don't. 

Carol, hoping the stores are still carrying eggnog