Christmas

There’s a British Winter Olympics Reindeer and he wants to wish you happy Christmas. Just click here. The British Winter Olympics Team are heading to Vancouver in 2010 to compete in the Winter Olympics. Go Team GB!
The Vancouver Olympic Winter Games will take place from 12 to 28 February 2010.
The Games will be staged across [...]

Dmitri Medvedev, the Russian President, today attended the midnight service in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour cathedral to celebrate Christmas in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The service was presided over by Metropolitan Cyril, the interim leader of the Russian Orthodox Churchsince the death of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II in December. Head of [...]

The Twelve Days of Christmas are the twelve days from Christmas until the beginning of Epiphany (January 6th; the 12 days count from December 25th until January 5th). In some traditions, the first day of Christmas begins on the evening of December 25th with the following day considered the First Day of Christmas (December [...]

Christmas is a time for tradition, don’t we all know it! But, there are several modern day traditions that we reckon a lot of you have begun to notice, here is a list of the Top Ten Modern Christmas Traditions that we’re sure many of you will experience at least to some degree this Festive [...]

Christmas was looming: my 27th Christmas in Italy, to be precise. I’m sure of this, as I had taken to marking them off like a convict marking off the years of his sentence served, and for twenty years at least I had begun to get panic symptoms towards the end of September, which grew in [...]

Do you fancy having an ethical Christmas this year? Want to put a little bit more meaning into the gifts you choose? Look no further than our review of the best online ethical retailers:

ADILI: Adili have a handy ethical gift guide (click here) which includes products ranging from ethically mined gold earrings to organic beauty [...]

Paper snowflakes are really good fun for children to make and easy too. You can vary the designs with different cuts, different paper or by colouring the snowflakes in. Put them on the window or against black card to create a homely snow scene.

Just get a square piece of white paper and fold it in [...]

You may be going to a fancy dress party, a pantomime, dressing up as Santa or one of his elves for the day at a grotto or school. But with a hectic Christmas schedule, where can you buy an outfit online?

At Angel’s Fancy Dress they have “Bah Humbug” hats, Christmas tree outfits (perfect for those [...]

The Tree
The Tree Itself

Choiceful have a large range of fibreoptic and faux Christmas trees. Some are ready decorated, some are not. You can get a 5ft Christmas tree with “realistic foliage” for under a tenner. Just click here.
PrezziePlus have a small range of mini Christmas trees including “grow your own” and USB desktop trees. Just [...]

If you would rather buy one…
John Lewis do a golden wreath for £25. Their cheapest wreath is £10. The Urban Garden do three ultra-modern arty wreaths – totally minimalist and very Swedish. The cheapest of them is £8.99. By far the best wreath collection we have seen here at Christmas.vg, is the range by NotOnTheHighstreet [...]