A Bit Of History!

On this date:

• In Ireland, the 8th of December has always been the day that busy farmers took off work to do their Christmas shopping. The towns would all be bustling with country people, who stood out by their dress and accents. Whole families descended on Cork City and it was the day that the rest of the townspeople would stay at home, and let the country folk get on with their business. Of course, it never did seem to happen that way because watching everything that was going on came to be a favorite pasttime!
  
  
  
  This whole tradition seemed to have been created because for the many that traveled the long miles into the town on that day, it really was their only chance to get the presents and make sure that Santa would visit their children on the 25th December.