What is boxing day to you?
- Gifts or money for the poor?
- Christmas “box” for the tradesman as a thanks for good service?
- A public holiday that is hardly a holiday anymore, especially for essential services, and these days, retail?
- Braving the shops for Boxing Day Sales in person?
- Continuing traditions of spending time with family for Christmas?
- Cleaning up after hosting Christmas Day get-togethers?
- Eating leftovers?
- Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race?
- Second Day of Christmas?
- Saint Stephen’s Day?
In our house, it is cricket. More specifically, watching the Boxing Day Cricket Test Match at the MCG.
Watching the Boxing Day Cricket Test may be supported by the ironing, a suitable chore to do while the cricket is on. Or perhaps starting a new jigsaw, received as a Christmas gift.
In 1997, while on a brief holiday in Melbourne, we went to the Boxing Day match, albeit not actually on Boxing Day. We went on Day 4, Australia vs South Africa; the result was a draw.
For Tom, it’s also a link to boxing and to one of his heroes. A tradition started in 2012 with a new Muhammed Ali T-shirt. What better time to wear it than on Boxing Day! An excuse to put on the T-shirt and pose at the start of the cricket.
Now, we have over 10 years of photos with the Muhammed Ali T-shirt on Boxing Day!!
What about an impromptu Boxing Day Haiku:
Boxing Day T-shirt
Background Christmas Tree and gifts
Let the cricket start!
This year, besides watching cricket all day, doing the ironing and a bit of a jigsaw, we also ate leftover glazed ham. Delicious. On the downside, according to my new Christmas present Fitbit, I walked less than 6000 steps all day.
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You gave me ten options (eleven with Boxing Day Test) and none of them apply in our house.
The 26 December is National Veg Day. It is the day of the year in which everyone in the household can do whatever they want. For Elizabeth it is almost always watching the Ice Age quadrillogy, replete with spontaneous laughter at the same spots each time. For me it is enjoying her relaxing and immersed in the enjoyment of it all.
Other than that, it is #7 on your list.
Never #4.
Not generally #6 either – that’s done and dusted the night before to make sure that National Veg Day is exactly that – Veg Day.
#11 makes an occasional appearance – on the second TV of course, so as not to interfere with Ice Age.
As for the Fitbit – get rid of it if it cannot accurately provide you with information.
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We keep meaning to have “mini veg days” to watch the New Year cricket test match. But the Sydney weather is against us this year!
And the Fitbit keeps reminding me (at least hourly) to stop sitting watching the cricket/replacement movie when the cricket is rained off. Time to stand up and walk a few steps …
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