Xmas 2007!
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We are off to the south of Spain for our Xmas break this year. And I am getting into the mode of thinking about my Xmas’s past. The Xmas Days I spent in Australia. Here are a few thoughts:
Xmas Day at one of my Auntie’s house. All the family there; the kids all running around, presents for everyone. Lots of of food, plenty to drink, lots of noise.
Xmas Eve: Watching the evening news broadcasts and the newsreader telling the kids that ‘Santa has left the North Pole and is on his way towards Australia’. We always waited up for this. Watching the Carols by Candlelight broadcast from the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Victoria. Not being able to get to sleep because of a) the excitement of it all, and b) it being too hot to get to sleep. Watching ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ and ‘Frosty the Snowman’ narrated by Bing Crosby on Xmas Eve. The late night shopping that you only get in Australia on Xmas Eve. The parties. Midnight Mass.
The Xmas Day weather in Sydney, Australia; hot. Humid. Sometimes raining. Going to church on Xmas Day. Riding your new bike out on the street before lunchtime. Eating all your chocolates before your Xmas dinner. Xmas dinner; hot turkey and all the trimmings despite us being south of the equator and no longer ‘British’. Xmas day BBQ’s - prawns, lobster, salads, fruit salad and Xmas cake. Too much beer. Xmas dinner on the beach at Bondi or Terrigal, Freshwater, North/South Steyne, Coogee or Maroubra.
Ahhh, them’s were the days…
Merry Xmas to all, and to all, a good night!.
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