On the Twelfth Day of Christmas ... It's Twelfth Night!

Now we come to the end of our champagne and sparkling wine celebration of The Twelve Days of Christmas. In Merry Old

England, at least, Twelfth Night was a night of bonfires and wassailing. In fact, according to the Julian Calendar, which was used in England until 1752 (though abandoned by the rest of Europe in 1582), January 5 was the Old Christmas Day…