What’s your favourite part of Christmas?

What do you love most about Christmas Dinner?

Are there any foods you’re not allowed to eat for Christmas dinner?

The white-tailed eagle is afforded the highest degree of legal protection under the Schedule 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act It is an offence to intentionally take, injure or kill a white-tailed eagle or to take, damage or destroy its nest, eggs or young. It is also an offence to intentionally or recklessly disturb the birds close to their nest during the breeding season. Violation of the law can attract fines up to £5,000 per offence and/or a prison sentence of up to six months. The Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 widens this protection and provides additional protection for white-tailed eagles and their nests.

Swan Upping is the annual census of the swan population on stretches of the Thames in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. This historic ceremony dates from the twelfth century, when the Crown claimed ownership of all mute swans. At that time swans were regarded as a delicious dish at banquets and feasts.

Today, the Crown retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water, but The Queen only exercises her ownership on certain stretches of the Thames and its surrounding tributaries.

Hebrews 10:1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming – not the realities themselves.

Luke 24:25-27 He said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?’ And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

Leviticus 11:1-3 The L ORD said to Moses and Aaron, ‘Say to the Israelites: “Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat: you may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.

Leviticus 11:13 These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture...

Leviticus 11:6-7 The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you. And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

Colossians 2:16-17 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.