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Ok, so, Marg...Christmas in Australia and other warm places.
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 228328" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I'm a bit late to this, we've been celebrating! I'll have to post in more detail at a reasonable hour, it's about 2.30 am on New Year's Day!</p><p></p><p>Our celebrations are a mix of Anglo-Saxon, and more modern commonsense. We do have Santas in red and white. Our local Santa compromises by wearing red shorts (fur-trimmed) and red sandals. We have pictures of snow, and reindeer, and lots of northern hemisphere imagery. But we also have summer stuff mixed in with it. </p><p></p><p>We do know "The Night Before Christmas" but is it very US, we have our own versions. I mentioned the song "Six White Boomers" by Rolf Harris in an earlier thread. I found a link to a YouTube link to the song and matching animation. It's a lovely song, about Santa swapping the reindeer for large old-man kangaroos for the Australia leg. We also have Australian Christmas carols, but these don't often get sung because the royalties are expensive. We never bothered about that sort of thing when I was a kid, but now they even charge royalties for singing them in church, for example.</p><p></p><p>A lot of places have outdoor carols services, with the audiences spreading out picnic rugs and singing in the warm summer evening. We talk about Christmas, not "holidays". If you're Jewish, you talk about Hannukah. If you're Muslim, you talk about Ramadan (a bit earlier, though). Often the poor Muslim kids are in the middle of Hannukah while doing their final exams. Difficult, to be fasting while trying to do exams. But they're all different festivals with different meanings. Our school year finishes the week before Christmas, then we get six weeks' holiday from school before the new year begins, end of January.</p><p></p><p>I'll tell you more in the morning, I need my sleep!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 228328, member: 1991"] I'm a bit late to this, we've been celebrating! I'll have to post in more detail at a reasonable hour, it's about 2.30 am on New Year's Day! Our celebrations are a mix of Anglo-Saxon, and more modern commonsense. We do have Santas in red and white. Our local Santa compromises by wearing red shorts (fur-trimmed) and red sandals. We have pictures of snow, and reindeer, and lots of northern hemisphere imagery. But we also have summer stuff mixed in with it. We do know "The Night Before Christmas" but is it very US, we have our own versions. I mentioned the song "Six White Boomers" by Rolf Harris in an earlier thread. I found a link to a YouTube link to the song and matching animation. It's a lovely song, about Santa swapping the reindeer for large old-man kangaroos for the Australia leg. We also have Australian Christmas carols, but these don't often get sung because the royalties are expensive. We never bothered about that sort of thing when I was a kid, but now they even charge royalties for singing them in church, for example. A lot of places have outdoor carols services, with the audiences spreading out picnic rugs and singing in the warm summer evening. We talk about Christmas, not "holidays". If you're Jewish, you talk about Hannukah. If you're Muslim, you talk about Ramadan (a bit earlier, though). Often the poor Muslim kids are in the middle of Hannukah while doing their final exams. Difficult, to be fasting while trying to do exams. But they're all different festivals with different meanings. Our school year finishes the week before Christmas, then we get six weeks' holiday from school before the new year begins, end of January. I'll tell you more in the morning, I need my sleep! Marg [/QUOTE]
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