Plum Pudding which is the traditional Christmas Day desert is made early as it takes a few weeks to mature. Christmas fruit cake is made and iced just before Christmas. Children often use advent calendars to count down the days to Christmas. Christmas trees are brought in anytime in December and decorated with colored lights, tinsel and baubles.
Some people favor the angel on top others the star.
The house is decorated with garlands, candles, holly , and ivy. Wreaths are hung on the door and some people hang mistletoe. Christmas cakes,Plum puddings and mince pies are made. People do sometimes go out carol singing to raise money for charity. On Christmas eve children put out stockings or in some cases pillow cases, on the end of their bed for Father Christmas to fill.