Twelve Plus One Tiger Christmas Tales: Part 6

The Fourth Day of Christmas

Date: 28 December 2014

Original Gift: Four Calling Birds

South African Gift: iTunes Voucher

Price: R150.

Food: Chocolate Brownies

Saint: Feast of the Holy Innocents

Scripture: Matthew 2 (you can get a free copy of the English Standard Version Bible on Kindle)

Activity: Give someone a kind or encouraging word.

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, four calling birds.

There are different versions to the song at this point. Some mention calling birds while other true loves gave colly or collie birds. It’s all a case of broken telephone and even left some unfortunate true loves with four, or rather 36 macabre coiled birds.

Strange looking coiled bird. Picture from www.rubylane.com

Twelve Plus One Tiger Christmas Tales: Part 5

The Third Day of Christmas

Date: 27 December 2014

Original Gift: Three French Hens

South African Gift: A bottle of French campaign. That was the original idea, but I decided a nice Wildekrans from Hermanus was a good South African spin on the French drink.

Price: Not too sure, as I found it in the fridge. But I reckon somewhere in the region of R100.

Food: Turducken a l’Orange (that’s three birds in a French sauce)

Saint: John

Scripture: Corinthians 13 (you can get a free copy of the English Standard Version Bible on Kindle)

Activity: Take a road trip and have the campaign upon arrival in celebration of the people you’re with and for safe travels.

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me, three French hens.

By this time most people have mourned the passing of Christmas and are starting to look ahead to hopefully more holiday before New Year’s celebrations. It’s also the time when most people who have spent Christmas and the holidays with loved ones start to get a little annoyed, as the best of families do. Thoughtless little comments or actions are taken way too personally, small children are getting bored and boisterous and you feel that the next wayward opinion might finally make you say something you’ll regret.