Why Christmas in Australia is the best
Do you reminisce at Christmas time? Christmas in Australia is like nowhere else on the globe. We celebrate Christmas with festivities in summer time, sometimes accompanied by heatwaves and bushfires.
Long gone are our childhood memories of traditional hot roast dinners with hot plum puddings, when the house was like a furnace. For the over-60s, we can recall with nostalgia the gifts from Father Christmas, not so plentiful as for modern children, but we appreciated the fun.
In 2017, how are you going to celebrate Christmas Day? It’s usually with a family Christmas meal. Foods now can be either hot or cold, traditional roasts, or seafood, an Aussie BBQ with wines, or fresh fruit platters or other desserts, all enjoyable. In multicultural Australia, there are many new traditions being created annually, even if it is merely a day off work for most.
Christmas is still magic for children, showered with presents. Carols by Candlelight is a popular Christmas tradition. But if we are alone at Christmas, we can spoil ourselves with favourite foods, music, a film, or pastimes. Let’s hope all Australians, in 2017, can enjoy and appreciate a happy, peaceful Christmas Day.
Here is a light-hearted look at Christmas in the future…
FUTURISTIC CHRISTMAS
(Hum along to the tune of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”)
This is a futuristic Christmas,
Sing along in an ode,
Global warming’s reached the North Pole,
That’s the end of ice and snow.
The Arctic’s now a surf beach,
All your gifts are out of reach,
There’s some really naughty bad elves,
Keeping the presents for themselves!
Where did dear old Santa go?
He’s been on the ho!
Santa’s been to bad girls’ lane,
And he never was seen again!
Now Santa’s got survivor baggage,
Mrs. Santa tossed away his clothes,
She divorced dear old Santa,
For hoing the bad girls’ hoes.
Now there’s a big beach party,
No Christmas ever again!
The bad girls are giving it to Santa,
No Christmas ever again!
This is a futuristic Christmas,
Global warming’s reached the North Pole,
Sing along with Santa,
A futuristic Christmas ode!
(Let’s party!)