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It's Boxing Day (the day after Christmas Day). I'll let our friends from countries who celebrate Boxing Day tell us all about it. What do you do on Boxing Day?
Apparently more folks than usual had a white Christmas. I even had reports of snow in County Donegal in Ireland and my quilter friend in North Wales. Seems like today is a good day for a wassail.
About Wassail and Wassailing.
As is often the case during festive occasions such as Christmas, the holiday spirit seemed to make rich folk a bit more benevolent than usual. Small groups of beggars and orphans would dance through the snowy streets of England singing songs of good cheer. Supposedly, good fortune would come to the master of the house if he would share a drink from his wassail bowl. Often the master would offer a penny, a bite of pork pie, or allow the children to stand beside the warm hearth. The wassail bowl itself was a hearty combination of hot ale or beer and spices and mead, just alcoholic enough to warm the tingling toes and fingers of the singers. The word "Wassail" means good health.
Let's have a Wassail! Here's to health! Enjoy the video of Here We Come A Wassailing from last weekend's concerts. Length 3:55
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