I was listening to my wife’s iPod Christmas playlist and was baffled by the inclusion of a song that referenced a Porn Star and a British Sports Car:
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark! The (Triumph) Herald angels sing
Boxing Day
The day after Christmas has long been a generally observed holiday in the UK. Here in the US, it is a day of work, although with Christmas falling on a Friday a large number of people are taking it is a vaction. I am not one of those, although depending on the weather, I may take January 2nd and drive to the mountains and ski.
One advantage of having just a single day is that the bin men are collecting the waste and recyclables from Christmas, a day later than our usual Thursday pickup. When I was growing up in the UK, if Christmas Day, Boxing Day, or their Bank Holiday replacements fell on Monday we would not have a collection between the week before Christmas and well into the New Year. This was not an ideal time to not have rubbish collected.
