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…
Australia
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…
Summer mango
Tomorrow is the first day of summer, so it seems only fitting that I came home today with 2 trays of mangoes. Eating the cool, juicy, golden, sweet flesh straight from the skin on a hot day is a strong summer memory for me. I grew up in northern Australia where every second back yard…