Lockdown Update Day 284 (Boxing Day)

[elisi]

Not much happened today. Although we managed to get out for a walk. :)

First, a thread that winds up explaining why it's called Boxing Day:

In cobwebbed corners of churches across the country are carved alms-boxes. Many, like this one at Watton, Norfolk, are inscribed, urging passers-by to ‘remember the poor’. For centuries, the collections in these oaken boxes were society’s main source of poor relief.#thread pic.twitter.com/SjxKYLDoMx

— Friendless Churches (@friendschurches) December 26, 2020

And then under the cut just a bunch of nice things.

Snowball fight in 1896.
Lyon, France. Louis Lumière. #DeOldify pic.twitter.com/dnoE4KHRKe

— Joaquim Campa (@JoaquimCampa) September 30, 2020

But I also wanted to do it because, especially right now, it is easy to think that Twitter is always terrible. That people are rubbish more often than they are not.

But it's not true. Because bad is loud, and good is quiet.

Don't ever forget that.

Merry Christmas everyone ♥️🎄 pic.twitter.com/8i5UxZzboP

— John Bull (@garius) December 25, 2020

Merry Christmas all! (Apologies for not being in landscape but it’s hard enough learning this and it’s bloody cold out there too so I’m not doing it again bah humbug!) #TwelveDaysOfSheenmas pic.twitter.com/pLTmN52tAh

— michael sheen (@michaelsheen) December 25, 2020

Your annual Boxing Day reminder that Terry's Chocolate Orange has HISTORY. It was predated by *Terry's Chocolate Apple* of 1926;
it was once joined by Terry’s Chocolate Greengage,
and the short-lived 1970s experiment of:
Terry’s Chocolate *Lemon*. pic.twitter.com/1MFjVN84gF

— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) December 26, 2020

pic.twitter.com/jvadM1Zgfs

— place where cat shouldn't be (@catshouldnt) December 26, 2020

Partner and I made a gingerbread International Space Station! pic.twitter.com/vVWXoKXaSo

— Claire Lamman (@ClaireLamman) December 25, 2020

It’s Christmas which means it’s time to tweet the letter my sister wrote to Santa in 2nd grade pic.twitter.com/zStciPorES

— permanent secretary for paul mccartney (@GraceSpelman) December 25, 2020