Christmas Trivia (3)

I'm sure you've all received your Christmas cards by now, and I would be very surprised if at least some of them did not feature a robin.  But what is the association between Christmas cards and robins?  Well it goes back to Edwardian/Victorian times when postmen wore red coats (it was, and still is, the Royal Mail and red was considered a royal colour) and because of that they got the nickname of "robins".  As Christmas - more perhaps back then than today - was a time when you eagerly watched out for the postman to bring cards and presents the idea of the robin as a Christmas bird was born.