And while many of us bemoan the loss of the old-fashioned Christmas, that may be more myth than reality.

For now, let's have an old-fashioned Christmas.

An old idea made new again, first Society and then the Empire had embraced the concept of the old-fashioned Christmas with great enthusiasm.

She reflected that it was not necessary to bury yourself in a moorland village in order to obtain an old-fashioned Christmas with snow and ice.

But this time we told her we might travel there for an old-fashioned Christmas.

An old-fashioned Christmas is held in December with a pancake breakfast, wiener roast, hot chocolate and cookies.

"I felt like an old-fashioned Christmas," he said, smiling at me.

All I said, granny, was that it would be quite fun to have a really old-fashioned Christmas this year.

But not surprisingly, people here insist that their Bethlehem, with its farms and clapboard homes, is the gold standard for an old-fashioned Christmas.

Two unusual opportunities to partake of an old-fashioned Christmas are at hand next weekend.