There are many reasons why we think Boxing Day is the best day of Christmas.
Here are just a few…
Traditionally, Boxing Day was a day for heading out, and you might well feel drawn to the idea of escaping the house after spending Christmas Day cooped up. If you don’t fancy a traditional panto (oh yes you do!) or a football match, you could join thousands of others and have a wild swim, or simply a good long walk.
But the great thing about Boxing Day is that there’s no expectation. It must be one of the only days of the year when it also feels acceptable to spend six hours doing a jigsaw and eating Chocolate Brazils. If you have a child in your life (and even if you don’t), on Boxing Day nobody will look askance at you dedicating all the daylight hours to building a 4,000-piece Lego Hogwarts School. Or starting and actually finishing an entire game of Monopoly. Or holding a table tennis championship that lasts four hours and ends with sweeping smashed Denby off the kitchen floor.
The more pointless your activity, the better. It’s a day for pottering, messing, being silly and shirking responsibilities and we would like more of that in our lives.
This blog is taken from our feature ‘For the Love of Boxing Day’ from our December issue by
Iona Bower. You can read more about why she loves Boxing Day best of all on page 86.
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