The twelfth night, NOT the thirteenth or after......

"Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. " (Leviticus 23:40)

Today is the 17th January 2011. I thought that Christmas decorations are traditionally taken down on twelfth Night or the evening of January 5th. I also thought that it was unlucky to take the decorations down after the 12th night. So, does that mean that EVERYONE in this office building will be unlucky? Hells bells I hope not! So far 2011 is going very well for me.

Whilst Googling and researching this subject to ensure my thoughts were fact - or as close to it as possible (let's not let it be said that I fabricate things……..). I found something VERY interesting:

"Long ago it was thought that leaving the decorations up would cause a disaster. People believed that tree-spirits lived in the greenery (holy, ivy etc) they decorated their houses with.


The greenery was brought into the house to provide a safe haven for the tree-spirits during the harsh midwinter days. Once this period was over it was necessary to return the greenery back outside to release the tree-spirits into the countryside once again.

Failure to do this would mean that vegetation would not be able to start growing again (spring would not return), leading to an agricultural disaster."

Holy snappin duck poo! All of the lackadaisical people out there who haven't taken their Christmas decorations down (including this office) have caused all the flooding in Eastern Australia, the major fires in Western Australia not to mention the plague of Locusts that are swarming Western New South Wales!!!!!!!!  I reckon it might also be the reason why our Cricket game is off too!

This could also be the reasoning for all the birds/fish falling out of the sky dead recently as well as the larger number of whales beaching themselves..

Please note that as yet we have not got to the famine phase I think that's because most of us have been good and already taken our decorations down as to not piss off the God's of Christmas (or who ever they are that goven these things).

People of Australia, I beg of you to ensure that you remove your Christmas decorations promptly on the 5th of January each year… I will take it on as my duty to remind you all in fear of another natural disaster.