Today in the Herald, the Glasgow morning Newspaper, there is one of the periodic reports from Fiona Houston who is living in the style of the 1790s for a year. The part which concerns us is the section which begins "I have been busying about, preparing for Christmas." to "Yet they must at least have had something to offer New Year callers, for the first-footing traditions were strong." The full story can be found at http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/51220.html As the material is copyright I don't think that we can put it on a RW site Edward Andrews. Only by recovering prophetic and objective modes of preaching, in faithfulness to the gospel of Christ crucified and in contradiction to society's profane habits and priorities, can we truly challenge our dying culture and reveal to it its own possibilities for resurrection. Alan E Lewis. "Between Cross and Resurrection. A Theology of Holy Saturday" Eerdmans 2001 p 377