The village flooded six times last year, including two floods in two days before Christmas.

BBC: Colebrook village flood scheme brought forward

Not that Vodafone has made life easy for itself since publishing its offer document two days before Christmas.

ECONOMIST: Vodafone and Mannesmann

The 12-week trial, which ended two days before Christmas, was the longest perjury case in Scottish legal history.

BBC: Tommy Sheridan jailed for three years for perjury

Two days before Christmas on December 23rd, one of them.

NPR: U.S. Auto Industry Still Reeling

The gelding made his debut three days before Christmas in New Orleans, scoring the first of two straight wins at the Fair Grounds.

WSJ: Goldencents seeks a Preakness reversal