Wow, another Christmas done and dusted. Our decorations are down and Christmas lights in – they just need to be packed away. It’s been a lovely couple of days (quite cool, so no picnicking sadly). I was very spoilt this Christmas as you can tell from the photo below: A very dear friend gave me…
Australia
Our Christmas traditions
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, so I thought I’d share my family traditions for this time of year. When I was a kid growing up my parents had two different businesses and worked 363 days of the year. The only days they didn’t work were Christmas Day and Easter Sunday. So we had our special Christmas…
Aussie Christmas carols
The other day I posted about my love of Christmas carols. Thanks to one of the comments left on that post, I realised I’ve never posted about our Aussie Christmas carols. Australia has some Christmas carols which are our own, plus there are a couple of traditional carols we’ve reworded to make a little more…
Douglas Adams + Australia
I can’t find the original source, but this is reportedly how Douglas Adams, the author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, viewed Australia and Australians: “Australia is a very confusing place, taking up a large amount of the bottom half of the planet. It is recognizable from orbit because of many unusual features, including what…
A rose by any other name…
Recently a village in Austria succeeded in changing its name. As of Jan 1st, the town of F***ing will be called Fugging. It was pronounced Fooking, but of course, foreigners took great delight in using the alternative pronunciation and swiping the town signs. I thought it might be fun to list some of the places…