SC - Re: Boxing Day Recipes

[Glenda Robinson]

Re the boxing day entry:

It's celebrated on Dec 26 regardless, but the gazetted 'public holiday' is
later if it falls on a weekend.

For example: If Christmas is on Friday and Boxing Day on Saturday, we also
get Monday as a public holiday.

Glenda.
Here in Australia Boxing Day means the start of the Sydney-Hobart Ocean
Yacht race, and the first day of the Boxing Day test match (Cricket) at the
MCG, cold leftovers, and perhaps a dip in the pool (and a cold beer if it's
one's thing).

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From: "Christine A Seelye-King" <mermayde at juno.com>
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Sent: Monday, 2 December 2002 5:06
Subject: Re: SC - Re: Boxing Day Recipes


> Boxing Day* - England - (or the first weekday after Christmas) This
> holiday has two different origins.  One is that the alms boxes in
> churches were opened on this day to pay for gifts for the poor.  The
> other is that apprentices carried pottery boxes around to be filled by
> kind householders.  The boxes were then broken open to pay for a feast
> for the workers.  Traditionally the day to give employees a "Christmas
> Box"- a payment or gift- it became the day to honor all civil servants,
> delivery people, and service personnel.