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Polite Society School of Étiquette offers Beginning, Advanced, Business, and Tea Étiquette Courses. Étiquette tutelage is presented at speaking engagements, webinars, school seminars, private dinners, and specialty tea events. The School's mission is to educate adults and children in customary codes of conduct with an emphasis on everyday social graces.

Monday, December 19, 2016

ENGLISH TRADITIONS AT CHRISTMAS!

ENGLISH TRADITIONS AT CHRISTMAS!

ENGLISH TRADITIONS AT CHRISTMAS!

NORTHERN FESTIVITIES



As church bells ring out across the land on Christmas Eve, the doughty citizens of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire brace themselves...  Local knight Sir Thomas de Soothill paid for a new tenor bell for the church in 1434 - now Dewsbury Minster - to atone for his sins, and the practice of tolling the Devil's Knell on Christmas Eve began - one toll for each year of the Christian era, to proclaim the defeat of evil and forgiveness of all sins.  That makes 2,016 tolls this year, finishing exactly on the stroke of midnight.  "We do allow visitors (in the minster bell tower), but they must not distract the ringing or counting," says the tower captain, Derek Johnstone.

On Christmas Day in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire, after tackling the turkey, foggy pudding and mince pies, the custom is to pair a chunk of zesty cheese with Christmas cake to cut through its fruity richness.

ENJOY!

MERRY CHIRSTMAS!

THANK YOU ENGLISH HOME MAGAZINE

FROM BERNADETTE