Day 6/366

6th January.

The Feast of the Epiphany.

The arrival of the Magi.

The end of the Twelve Days of Christmas (the 5th of January being the twelfth day) .

Women's Christmas (Ireland).

Traditionally the day to take down the Christmas tree.

So this morning I turned on the Christmas Tree lights for the last time this season and photographed the fold-out Nativity Scene in readiness to store all away once more.

As a child, the Magi would not arrive on the Nativity Scene until the 6th of January.

As a child my family did not have a Christmas Tree.

I was about thirteen years old when I begged my father to cut down a casurina tree from along the creek that bordered our acreage.

I decorated it with cotton wool.

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An Irish Toast For You for 2012

May you live as long as you want

and never want as long as you live.