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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 222231" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I've said it before, but one day I would like to experience a proper white Christmas. But it's so very different to what I always experience as Christmas. We can recognise a white Christmas because a lot of our movies and TV shows especially in the past, come from the Northern Hemisphere, so we see so many Christmas plots which have snow as the climax of the story.</p><p></p><p>But for me, a good Christmas is -</p><p></p><p>1) Singing Christmas carols in the street (we used to do it on the back of an old truck) on Christmas Eve, enjoying the warmth of the night with the late, crimson sunset and the pulse of the cicadas like a wraparound metronome guiding the singers. It's changed now, but there is still the neighbourhood connection with friends and total strangers, wrapped up in the Christmas story and the heat of the summer. Besides, those shepherds in the Christmas story were out in the fields watching their sheep. They wouldn't have been doing THAT in the middle of winter! So for us, the story fits the season, literally.</p><p></p><p>2) Sunburn, salt and surf as we head to the beach after Christmas lunch. Or those years when we took our Christmas dinner to the beach and spent the entire day there, trying to eat with 20 of us trying to pass the chicken or the ham, to someone four picnic tables away.</p><p></p><p>3) Listening to my favourite Christmas song as a kid, "Six White Boomers" by Rolf Harris. They used to play it on the radio every year and I would wait by the radio for it. It's the story of how Santa comes to Australia and swaps the reindeer for six large white (because they're older and grey) Red Kangaroos who are better equipped to pull the sleigh round the outback. The story is how Santa rescues a baby joey at the zoo and helps him find his mother; it's a lovely story.</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSsffF2xhA" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSsffF2xhA</a></p><p></p><p>4) Being with family and friends, relaxing, talking, trying foods we never eat at any other time of the year.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 222231, member: 1991"] I've said it before, but one day I would like to experience a proper white Christmas. But it's so very different to what I always experience as Christmas. We can recognise a white Christmas because a lot of our movies and TV shows especially in the past, come from the Northern Hemisphere, so we see so many Christmas plots which have snow as the climax of the story. But for me, a good Christmas is - 1) Singing Christmas carols in the street (we used to do it on the back of an old truck) on Christmas Eve, enjoying the warmth of the night with the late, crimson sunset and the pulse of the cicadas like a wraparound metronome guiding the singers. It's changed now, but there is still the neighbourhood connection with friends and total strangers, wrapped up in the Christmas story and the heat of the summer. Besides, those shepherds in the Christmas story were out in the fields watching their sheep. They wouldn't have been doing THAT in the middle of winter! So for us, the story fits the season, literally. 2) Sunburn, salt and surf as we head to the beach after Christmas lunch. Or those years when we took our Christmas dinner to the beach and spent the entire day there, trying to eat with 20 of us trying to pass the chicken or the ham, to someone four picnic tables away. 3) Listening to my favourite Christmas song as a kid, "Six White Boomers" by Rolf Harris. They used to play it on the radio every year and I would wait by the radio for it. It's the story of how Santa comes to Australia and swaps the reindeer for six large white (because they're older and grey) Red Kangaroos who are better equipped to pull the sleigh round the outback. The story is how Santa rescues a baby joey at the zoo and helps him find his mother; it's a lovely story. [URL='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSsffF2xhA']www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSsffF2xhA[/URL] 4) Being with family and friends, relaxing, talking, trying foods we never eat at any other time of the year. Marg [/QUOTE]
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