On the second day of Christmas...

My true love gave to me,
Two Mummers Players,
And a fluffy cat sitting under a Christmas tree!

On an unseasonably warm Boxing Day (14.5 degrees!), I popped down to my local high street this morning to watch the Bristol Morrismen putting on their annual Mummers Play. I was surprised to see that quite a few shops were open, and somehow I managed to resist buying some half price boxes of Mince Pies! I may return!!

"Mummers' Plays are one of the oldest surviving features of the traditional English Christmas. Mumming in England goes back for over a thousand years. Mumming is best described as early pantomime. The plays are based loosely on the legend of St George and the dragon. The plays are intended to show the struggle between good and evil."

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/xmas/mummers.htm

HappyBoxing Day to you all!!