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Boxing Day News Mashup: The Day After

by Actual News Geezer | December 26, 2006 at 11:42 am

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NowPublic contributor ricknight has started this exploration with his article about the strange phenomenon of Boxing Day. There is a wild diversity about the things people do for BD. Here it continues with a look at a variety of news articles and photos from you about your post-Christmas activities.

Boxing Day Swimmers:

"Hundreds of swimmers worked off their Christmas dinners by heading into the sea in Pembrokeshire.

The annual Boxing Day swim in Tenby has raised more than £150,000 for charity during its 35-year history.

A record entry of 583 swimmers took part in the event off the town's north beach, with a 9C water temperature and a cold breeze."

The Post-Christmas Fox Hunt:

Hunting is proving more popular than ever, with record numbers of
people attending Boxing Day hunts across the country despite the ban,
campaigners said today.

More than 300,000 people are believed to
have taken part in the 314 UK hunts, on what is traditionally the
busiest day in the hunting calendar.

The Countryside Alliance
said the record turnout proved the two-year-old ban on the blood sport
was irrelevant, with hunting now more popular than ever before.

Spokeswoman Charlotte Fiander said: "We think we've had a record turnout this year.

Dec. 26 is Boxing Day in the British Isles, where I now live.

St. Stephen's Day, as it is also known, doesn't draw a great deal of attention in the United States. Most of us know the day after Christmas as The Day After Christmas.

In my family, it is known as Go To A Movie And Eat At Chili's Day. For me personally, it is known as Spend Seven Hours Swearing Profusely Trying To Figure Out My New Digital Camera Without Reading The Instructions And Then Break Off A Super-Mega-Ultra-Important Bit That Voids The Warranty And Ensures I Will Be Asking For A Digital Camera Next Christmas Day.

Over here, though, it is an important part of the holiday season, helping to narrow the gap between Christmas and New Year's Day, thus making it impossible for employers to expect you to sober up and get back to work. Each region celebrates in different ways

And finally, there is cricket in Melbourne, Australia:

The MCG crowd of 89,155 was slightly
smaller than expected, and the big moment slightly longer in
arriving. Inclement weather was to blame; this was not much of a
day for watching cricket, nor much of a pitch for bowling spin, at
least not of the mortal variety.

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