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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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'Boxing Day' on December 26th would be known by medieval folk as St Stephens Day, when in medieval times the collecting boxes in monasteries and churches were opened and the money therein distributed to needy people waiting outside for that purpose.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Boxing Day Dinner in the Dalserf Restaurant Relax and enjoy a sumptuous Boxing Day dinner in the Dalserf Restaurant - The perfect way to wrap up your Christmas festivities at a leisurely pace.
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Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer
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We are open seven days a week, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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The shared year means that the normal calendar is in operation and the children spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with tone parent and Christmas afternoon and Boxing Day with the other parent on a rotating basis.
We actually have Christmas Day on Boxing Day in our household, with our daughter and her family - including the dreaded grandson - arriving in time for lunch.
I was glad that we stayed home on Boxing Day, because at lunch time Steve phoned to give us the news that his Christmas present to Jo had been an engagement ring and that they intend to get married sometime soon.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Environment Agency teams worked throughout Christmas and Boxing Day ensuring that rivers and streams did not become blocked by debris and all flood defences were working properly.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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On the Boxing Day holiday - which falls on December 27 - the Headington Quarry dancers will be out again, but this time with their usual post-Christmas performances of rapper sword dance, carol singing, handbell ringing, and the village mummer's play.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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It means that he will miss the home game against his former club Sheffield United at Fratton Park just before Christmas and then the trip to Wimbledon on Boxing Day (my birthday, by the way) and the long haul to Grimsby.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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It was Boxing Day 26th December 1996 I was riding on a bus along Sukhumvit Road about two in the afternoon and I saw a couple of workers loading one of the booths onto the truck.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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The Waiting Game I arrived back in Melbourne on the Christmas Day with the intention of seeing the Boxing Day test at the MCG and meeting cousins at a planned re-union later that day.
Christmas is the middle of summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and December 26 [Boxing Day] is celebrated by the start of the annual 630 mile sailing race from Sydney harbor to Hobart, the capital of the island state if Tasmania.
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