Nearly 60 million Christmas Trees are grown each year in Europe.



As of 12th November, only 43 days left til Christmas Day!

As of 13th November only 42 days left til Christmas Day!

No fact today, just a photo of me (Santa).

As of 15th November only 40 sleeps left til Christmas Day!

If you were to sleep at least 8 hours over the next 40 days, you would have slept +/- 320 hours between now and Christmas! Which a cat would probably be doing double that amount!

Rudolph was almost named Rollo or Reginald. Reginald the Red-Nosed Reindeer doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.



Only 39 days left until my reindeer's take me around the world!

Gift-giving came from Holland. There, St. Nicholas' feast day is celebrated December 6 by children leaving out shoes overnight and finding little gifts from St. Nicolas in the morning. According to legend, hanging stockings came from the take of a poor man who couldn't afford his three daughters dowries: St. Nick dropped a bag of gold down their chimney one night so that the eldest could wed - but it fell into a stocking that was drying by the fire!



Only 38 days left until the stockings get filled up!

US scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world's presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second. I take a higher speed than that!


Only 37 days left until I hand out the presents!

Just a quick cute photo to be posted today!



Only 35 days left til Christmas Day!