Here I have shown old two-faced Janus, the Roman god of doorways and portals, and hence, by extension, the End of the Old Year and the Start...

Advent Calendar - 24th Dec - 'Nativity' Not much to say here: We all know the story, pretty much. Advent Calendars traditionally end...

Advent Calendar - 23rd Dec - 'Wren Boys' Wren Day, also known as Wren's Day, Hunt the Wren Day or the Hunting of the Wrens (Iris...

Advent Calendar - 22nd - 'Mari Lwyd' The Mari Lwyd (in Welsh, Y Fari Lwyd) is one of the strangest and most ancient of a number of c...

Advent Calendar - 21st Dec - 'Wassail' The word Wassail refers to several related traditions; first and foremost wassailing is an ...

Advent Calendar - 20th Dec - 'The Box of Delights' The Box of Delights is a children's fantasy novel by the then Poet Laureate J...

Advent Calendar - 19th Dec - 'Marley's Ghost' So much of what we now think of Christmas comes, it seems, from the works and writ...