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HOLYDAYS IN ENGLAND

NEW YEAR IN ENGLAND

In England the New Year is not as widely observed as Christmas. Some people ignore it. Many others do celebrate the New Year. The most common type of celebration is a New Year party. It begins at 8 pm and goes on until morning. There is a buffet supper of cold meat, pies, sandwiches, cakes and biscuits. At midnight everyone can hear the chimes of Big Ben and drink a toast to the New Year. Then the party goes on.

Another way of celebrating is to go to a New Year's dance. Dance halls are decorated and there are several bands playing merry music.

The most famous celebration is in London round the statue in Piccadilly Circus where crowds welthe New Year. In Trafalgar Square someone usually falls into the fountain.

Some people watch others celebrating on television. There are no traditional English New Year festivities, and television producers show Scottish ones.

Some people send New Year cards and give presents and make "New Year resolutions".

On New Year's Day the "New Year Honours List " is published in the newspapers of those who are to be given knighthoods, etc.

ST. VALENTINE'S DAY

Saint Valentine's Day is observed on February 14. The first Valentine of all was a bishop, who behe was put to death by the Romans sent a note of friendship to his jailer's blind daughter. Roman sol-diers had no right to get married. Valentine wed them secretly and for this he was sentenced. February 14 is the date of an old pagan festival when Roman maidens put love letters into an urn to be drawn out by their boy friends.

EASTER

In England Easter is a time for the giving and receiving of presents /Easter eggs/, for the Easter Bonnet Parade and hot cross buns. Nowadays Easter eggs are made of chocolate but painting egg-shells is still popular in some country districts. Emblems of Easter are also fluffy chicks, baby rabbits, daffodils, catkins, and lily. They signify the Nature's reawakening.

London greets the spring with Easter Parade on Easter Sunday. The parade begins at 3 p.m. It conof many decorated floats bearing the Easter Princess and her attendants. The finest bands take part in the parade.

LATE SUMMER BANK HOLIDAY

On Bank Holiday the town folk usually flock into the country and to the coast. They take a picnic-lunch and enjoy their meal in the open. Seaside towns near London are invaded by thousands of holiday-makers.

Bank holidays is also an occasion for big sports meeting. There are


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