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"Something to do with servants getting gifts or something like that...Google will have all the knowledge you require" Yes.. servants were given the Xmas day leftovers as gifts! | |||
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"Took the words out of my mouth " Meatloaf. Left overs.... | |||
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".. Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers, in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December. In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In the Roman Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, the day is dedicated to St. Stephen, so is known as St. Stephen's Day to Catholics, and to the population generally in Italy, Ireland, Finland, and Alsace and Moselle in France. It is also known as both St. Stephen's Day and the Day of the Wren or Wren's Day in Ireland. .. From Wikipedia" Technicaly isn`t Boxing Day the first working day after Christmas Day? In other words, if Christmas Day fell on a Saturday, Boxing Day would not be the Sunday, but the Monday. | |||
" Technicaly isn`t Boxing Day the first working day after Christmas Day? In other words, if Christmas Day fell on a Saturday, Boxing Day would not be the Sunday, but the Monday. " Mr69: no. | |||
".. Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers, in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December. In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In the Roman Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, the day is dedicated to St. Stephen, so is known as St. Stephen's Day to Catholics, and to the population generally in Italy, Ireland, Finland, and Alsace and Moselle in France. It is also known as both St. Stephen's Day and the Day of the Wren or Wren's Day in Ireland. .. From Wikipedia Technicaly isn`t Boxing Day the first working day after Christmas Day? In other words, if Christmas Day fell on a Saturday, Boxing Day would not be the Sunday, but the Monday. " No, its the day after Christmad Day. the bank holiday would be on the Monday if Saturday was Christmas Day | |||
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"Been over here 10 years now I still call it boxing day. Old habits die hard" Same here | |||
".. Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses or employers, in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December. In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In the Roman Catholic Church's liturgical calendar, the day is dedicated to St. Stephen, so is known as St. Stephen's Day to Catholics, and to the population generally in Italy, Ireland, Finland, and Alsace and Moselle in France. It is also known as both St. Stephen's Day and the Day of the Wren or Wren's Day in Ireland. .. From Wikipedia Technicaly isn`t Boxing Day the first working day after Christmas Day? In other words, if Christmas Day fell on a Saturday, Boxing Day would not be the Sunday, but the Monday. No, its the day after Christmad Day. the bank holiday would be on the Monday if Saturday was Christmas Day" The day after Christmas Day is St. Stephens Day, regardless of which day of the week it falls on. When Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, the bank holiday Monday (the first working day after Christmas Day) is then Boxing Day. | |||
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"I disagree - as St Stephens Day and Boxing Day are the same thing" Most years they are on the same day, but the definition of Boxing Day is the first working day after Christmas Day. When Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, this means Boxing Day is on the Monday, with Stephens Day on the Sunday. | |||
