While buying your true love all the gifts from the "12 Days of Christmas" carol certainly isn't practical -- they would end up with A LOT of birds -- it would also cost you thousands of dollars.

Why is it so long? Why 12 days? Why those gifts? (Can you even call flocks upon flocks of birds “gifts”?) And is there a more hidden tie-in to Christmas symbols? If you’ve ever wondered ...

Dec. 29—Most of us know the song, but relatively few realize the significance of the song, "12 Days of Christmas." Originating from the 18th Century, the song lists different presents given by a ...

Another classic, which is steeped in biblical history, and challenges our memories every year, is The 12 Days of Christmas. Most of us are familiar with the lyrics, as every line details a gift ...

The ninth day of Christmas is nine ladies dancing. Anyone who has watched courting birds knows that dancing plays an important role in courtship rituals for a wide variety of bird species.

Download the challenge sheet and see how many kind gestures you can complete in the run up to Christmas. You don't have to do one each day, you can spread the kindness across the whole month of ...

On the first day of Christmas, Farmers Weekly gave to me…a giveaway to enter for FREE! This festive season, we want to reward our readers with 12 days of gifts to make your Christmas extra special.

Dickens is best known as the author of spooky story A Christmas Carol, but what other festive fables did he write? What were his family Christmases like? And what presents can you get for the ...