When I lived in England a long time ago, I always had a small but important task in the Christmas ritual. On Christmas morning I was sent out with pruning shears to get a sprig of redcurrant holly, because an authentic Christmas pudding is topped with a sprig of holly. Nine times out of ten I would discover that the trees that were still full of berries a few weeks earlier had been plundered by blackbirds and song thrushes.
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