Warm Christmas
From a letter Horace Walpole wrote to his friend Sir Horace Mann, Strawberry Hill, December 26, 1748: "Did you ever know a more absolute countrygentleman ? Here am I come down to what you call keep my Christmas! Indeed it is not in all the forms; I have stuck no laurel and holly in my windows, I eat no turkey and chine, I have no tenants to invite, I have not brought a single soul with me. The weather is excessivly stormy, but has been so warm, and so entirely free from frosts the whole winter, that not only several of my honeysuckles are come out, but I have literally a blossom upon a nec-tarine-tree, which I believe was never seen in this climate before on the 26th of December. I am extremely busy here planting ..."
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Taupo Times, Volume 19, Issue 98, 17 December 1970, Page 5 (Supplement)
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137Warm Christmas Taupo Times, Volume 19, Issue 98, 17 December 1970, Page 5 (Supplement)
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