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Yes, I know it isn’t Boxing Day, it’s the day after, but not being around a century ago I can’t repeat the newses from those days with the usual mildly exaggerated and slightly embellished personal [more…]

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In the church year St Stephen’s Day is traditionally the one after Christmas Day, or two days after in some places.  In the Eastern church countries which still use the Julian calendar both it and [more…]

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