Long warm days, seafood and cold smoked ham with an occasional regression to northern hemisphere roasts. As Tim below says “White wine in the Sun”, Our Christmas is wrapped in long school holidays and people migrating to costal holiday destinations. Many homes (not mine) have the continuous background noise of the cricket on the TV. Long holidays means the kids Christmas presents can be broken before they return to school. Most families migrate between one side of the family on Christmas day and the other on Boxing day and almost no one goes to work between Christmas and New Year except for shopkeepers who have their biggest sales days. Some smart families meet after the sales to share gifts (purchased at the sales).
A mostly non-religious society we consider Christmas a family celebrations time, perhaps more like the American thanks giving (we don’t do that). This song says it quite well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q. Increasingly members of our diverse society Islam, Hindus, Buddhist’s and Jews celebrate not Christ but Christmas with the rest of us, taking the opportunity to catchup with family.
Tell us more about your or your neighbourhood’s Christmas.
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