Father Christmas Goes on Holiday

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This is a wonderful follow-up to the Father Christmas book. After working so hard on Christmas Eve, Father Christmas is ready for a well-earned holiday. He converts his sleigh into a camper van then sets off with his deer on holiday. But in each country he visits, he is soon spotted and has to move on. After spending time and enjoying too much food in France, Scotland and Las Vegas, it is soon time to head home. Pimlott, JAR (1960). "Christmas under the Puritans". History Today. 10 (12). Archived from the original on 28 January 2013 . Retrieved 23 December 2012. This article is about the Christmas character of English folklore and myth. For the correspondingly-named character in other countries and languages, see List of Christmas and winter gift-bringers by country. For other uses, see Father Christmas (disambiguation). Millington, Peter (April 2003). "The Truro Cordwainers' Play: A 'New' Eighteenth-Century Christmas Play" (PDF). Folklore. 114 (1): 53–73. doi: 10.1080/0015587032000059870. JSTOR 30035067. S2CID 160553381. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2018 . Retrieved 8 November 2019. The article is also available at eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3297/1/Truro-Cordwainers-Play.pdf. As interest in Christmas customs waned, Father Christmas's profile declined. [1] He still continued to be regarded as Christmas's presiding spirit, although his occasional earlier associations with the Lord of Misrule died out with the disappearance of the Lord of Misrule himself. [1] The historian Ronald Hutton notes, "after a taste of genuine misrule during the Interregnum nobody in the ruling elite seems to have had any stomach for simulating it." [27] Hutton also found "patterns of entertainment at late Stuart Christmases are remarkably timeless [and] nothing very much seems to have altered during the next century either." [27] The diaries of 18th and early 19th century clergy take little note of any Christmas traditions. [24]

a b Hutton, Ronald (1994). The Rise and Fall of Merry England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 55. England was merry England, when / Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; / 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer / The poor man's heart through half the year." [39] It's time for a bloomin' holiday in this hilarious sequel to the beloved festive classic, Father Christmas. Father Christmas needs a well deserved break and after industrially converting his sleigh into a camper van, sets off with his deer to France to enjoy the wine, food and sun. But be is soon recognised as Father Christmas and moves onto Scotland. But it's too cold and again risking being recognised he goes to Las Vegas in search of more sun before heading home.a b c d Henisch, Bridget Ann (1984). Cakes and Characters: An English Christmas Tradition. London: Prospect Books. pp.183–184. ISBN 0-907325-21-1.

The story focuses on a stereotypical vision of Father Christmas with a down-to-earth twist, living in contemporary Britain with his pets and reindeer, coping with everyday domestic chores, who recounts to the viewers about a holiday he took before preparing for another Christmas. [1] Tolkien, JRR (1976). The Father Christmas Letters. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. ISBN 0-04-823130-4.Thomas Hervey's The Book of Christmas (1836), illustrated by Robert Seymour, exemplifies this view. [41] In Hervey's personification of the lost charitable festival, "Old Father Christmas, at the head of his numerous and uproarious family, might ride his goat through the streets of the city and the lanes of the village, but he dismounted to sit for some few moments by each man's hearth; while some one or another of his merry sons would break away, to visit the remote farm-houses or show their laughing faces at many a poor man's door." Seymour's illustration shows Old Christmas dressed in a fur gown, crowned with a holly wreath, and riding a yule goat. [42] Christmas with his children 1836 In Britain, the first evidence of a child writing letters to Father Christmas requesting gift has been found in 1895. [59] Santa Claus crosses the Atlantic [ edit ] Most residual distinctions between Father Christmas and Santa Claus largely faded away in the early years of the 20th century, and modern dictionaries consider the terms Father Christmas and Santa Claus to be synonymous.