I did a little research online today and found out the following:
"Twelfth Night is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany and concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas."
"It is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as 'the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking.' However, there is currently some confusion as to which night is Twelfth Night: some count the night of Epiphany itself (sixth of January) to be Twelfth Night. One source of this confusion is the Medieval custom of starting each new day at sunset, so that Twelfth Night precedes Twelfth Day."
Well, tonight is the eve of January 6th so we'll follow the Medieval custom and call this Twelfth Night.
Dale and I celebrated with drinks, steaks and chocolate cake (and Downton Abbey too). It was all very lovely.
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