Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you all from New Zealand and Australia - where I am staying at the moment with my son and his family, and where it is bakingly hot. But we still cooked a roast dinner! We unwrapped our presents this morning and then ate chocolates. (That's compulsory isn't it?)

The photos are from a common site on the internet, by the way. And are of New Zealand, rather than Australia. (Oooh, why has that underlined itself?)



And so to answer your question Flartopia, yes, our Christmas traditions are pretty much the same as in Britain really. Even to the extent of sometimes sending out Christmas Cards showing red robins in the snow! Crazy really, but it's just stuck from when our forefathers came out to New Zealand about 160 years ago. Australia was settled a bit earlier, but the same thing applies I imagine. Quite often these days people will have a barbeque or similar for Christmas Dinner, but I think that the majority of people still do the whole roast meal thing - turkey/chicken/ham/pork/lamb/whatever, and all the trimmings. Then we are exhausted because it's all just too hot and we've eaten too much and we collapse on the sofa for an afternoon sleep!
Joyeux Noel.