Q: How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizza?

A: Deep pan, crisp and even.

Ahahahahha!

I love Christmas! I love holidays, I love summer, I love family time, I love presents, I love that feeling of freedom and free time. And I love Christmas trivia and Christmas facts…

I hope you do too 🙂

Did you know? The Twelve Days Christmas Price Index

• When you add up all the gifts given in the Twelve Days of Christmas (a partridge in a pear tree on day 1, a partridge and two turtle doves on day 2, etc), you receive a total of 364 presents over the twelve days: one for each day of the year, except Christmas.
• The Christmas Price Index is a yearly measure of the cost of buying one set of each of the presents in The Twelve Days of Christmas: a partridge in a pear tree, and two turtle doves, and three French hens…and all the rest of it.
• When the Christmas Price Index was first calculated in 1984, the cost of Christmas was $12623.10, assuming you just hire the maids a milking, lords a leaping, ladies dancing, pipers piping and drummers drumming for a single day.

 A partridge in a where-tree?

The lyrics of The Twelve Days Of Christmas are thought to have changed over hundreds of years, resulting in several confusions, including the facts that:

• The four calling birds were probably four colly birds, meaning birds as black as coal.
• There is no such thing as a French hen.
• Partridges are a type of pheasant, related to the peacock. They build their nests on the ground and so are probably unlikely to be found in pear trees.

Ho, Ho, Holmium

Ho is the chemical symbol for Holmium, a highly magnetic soft, silver metal named for the Swedish city of Stockholm.

Twinkle, twinkle

The Christmas Tree Cluster is a group of blue stars, arranged in the shape of a Christmas tree. The cluster is 2500 light years away, which means the twinkles you’ll see tonight shone from these stars 2500 years ago.

They shine blue because they’re larger, hotter and younger than our Sun.

Gold, myrrh and frankincense

Myrrh and frankincense are chunks of stinky dried tree goop, called resin. These resins were once as valuable as gold. They are still used today to make perfumes and incense.

The resin is harvested by slashing through the bark of a suitable plant. This makes the plant bleed sappy tears, which harden into beads on the side of the tree.

Myrrh comes from spiny bushes and is a yellowy-red colour. It starts out waxy before turning hard. Myrrh was also used to embalm Egyptian mummies.

Frankincense comes from scraggly trees and starts out milky white before hardening to a translucent yellow.

Merry Christmas!!