TABLEtalk Christmas Party

It's Christmas time again!

Thirty students and twenty-three helpers & hosts came along to our TABLEtalk party.

TABLEtalk - Games Night

The Hula Hoop Challenge
is ALWAYS
a big hit at
Games Nights!!

Christmas Past & Present @ Stirling Castle

A number of us went to this Historic Scotland day at Stirling Castle. Entitled 'Christmas Past & Present' the day took us on a light-hearted journey through the history and evolution of Christmas.

Pagan Beginnings ... many of the traditions of Christmas started much later than you would have expected, but some much earlier. Learn more about Christmas from an unexpected source, as this druid explains ...

Food fit for a Queen ... What would one of Scotland's most famous monarchs have eaten at Christmas time?

What? No Christmas?! ... Were you aware that during the time of Oliver Cromwell Christmas and all its festivities were banned!!

Auld Lang Syne ... Almost all of us have either heards or sung Scotland's most famous song, written by Robert Burns, which brings in the New Year.

A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS ... A large proportion of the tales and traditions of Christmas - Christmas cards, Christmas crackers and Boxing Day - came about as recently as the Victorian period. Here Charles Dickens explains more ... And finally ... the year is 1974 ... Lava lamps are the height of sophistication, and children escape with chopper bikes and the Bay City Rollers. In a difficult period of strikes and power cuts people still managed to enjoy Christmas!