Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Posts from Your Archives – 2022 – Christmas and New Year Special – Alternative 12 days of Christmas by Sue Wickstead

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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Posts from Your Archives – 2022 – Christmas and New Year Special – Alternative 12 days of Christmas by Sue Wickstead

Since this series began in January 2018 there have been over 1200 Posts from Your Archives where bloggers have taken the opportunity to share posts to a new audience…

The topics have ranged from travel, childhood, recipes, history, family and the most recent series was #PotLuck where I shared a random selection of different topics.

This series has been along the same lines and is a celebration of Christmas and New Year.

Look out for a new archive post in the Spring.

Today teacher and children’s author Sue Wickstead shares a  retelling of the Twelve Days of Christmas to mark the year she left teaching full time and started her new life path on January 6th .

My New Year starts on the 6th January. (The day I left full time teaching and started the next part of my journey.)

The song 12 Days of Christmas’, takes you to the 6th January. It is Epiphany and the coming of the Kings. The time for decorations to be down and away until next year. So here are my 12 days

(Warning… this song goes on and on! You will be glad when Christmas is put away, maybe?) 

12 Days of Christmas by Sue Wickstead

(Including buses and Lego with a little bit of craft work in between.)

On the First day of Chrismas my true love gave to me,
A Bus bag beneath the Christmas tree.

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