Hutch

Nice one, Sam.

Cheetah7

You have a couple more ghosts to come yet.

Chelle66

More, more. We want more!!!!

Kim67

I haven't even put up the Christmas tree or got the three kids anything to put under it yet. Better pull my finger out I guess.....

MartinLuther

I love warm Christmas.

Shopping in the warm
Shopping without the crowds
More choice of party venues
Boozing (aka shopping) outdoors.
Not freezing my butt off in damp miserable weather
Better choice of outdoor prezzies that can be used straight away rather than waiting till the weather improves.
Letting the kids to cool down in the pool when it all gets too much (for them and me)
Making Christmas babies

Hopefully we'll get a warm one this year. (Unlike the last 4!)

BadgeIsBack

I like Christmas here. Long summer nights. Village candlelit carols.

What people may have to consider is that Christmas in Australia is part of the long summer holiday season and the 2 days plus New Year's Day is a fraction of all the fun and games.This year is perfect: 2 x 4 day weekends for the cost of 1 'bridging' day

People seem to take the actual festival more seriously in the UK - here it is presents, observe the festival then crack on with the summer holidays. Some people will be taking up to a month off work and doing a big trip.

I used to live in London. I think it snowed reliably once in 20 odd years. Hutch is right - 10 degrees, rain was par for the course. Snow is the only thing I can thin of which would make Christmas over there particularly special. We have no family in town but get lots of invites - to the point where there have been years where we have wanted to be on our own.

This year we have been left the keys of a swanky flat in the CBD so might just live it up there with the kids and see the fireworks.

Jaycee1

I loved it as a kid, the 6 week holidays had started and you had all that time to play with your new toys, riding bikes and playing outside.
Here we are - stuck in UK waiting for a c.o in the coldest winter i remember for ages!
J x

Tiawamutu

You want to try it in 42 degrees, like it was here last Christmas!

....and we had no air con last year But have learnt our lesson this year

asher

good one PP

Chelle66

We lived in Lancashire where we got snow every year, unfortunately. We actually had a white Xmas about 3 or 4 years ago. Very pretty, if you like that sort of thing. I think the reason there is so much hype about Xmas in the UK is because the winters are so cold, wet and miserable, Xmas is all there is to look forward to. It is different here. We were at a Xmas Pageant in Mandurah on Tues and it seemed really weird seeing everyone all done up in tinsel and Santa hats and stuff. It felt odd not being all rugged up to watch the fireworks like we did in Accrington.

emelems

Think you might have a very good and valid point here!

Em x

TheDangerousQuietOne

I was originally planning on staying in Oz for xmas and if I had then it would have been nothing special. I would have worked until lunch on xmas eve then gone home and watched tv. Xmas day would have involved sleeping in til mid afternoon then more tv and feeling sorry for myself.

As it is I'm going home next week and I'll be going out and partying with all my friend on xmas eve then staying in bed til mid afternoon, eating a big meal then watching tv and feeling sorry for myself...

steve`o

a christmas classic in the making sam

marvinc

Any of you got pics of your Christmas trees and tinsel in the sunshine

Just to make us feel really bad at zero degrees having to scrape ice this morning from the car to get to work

BadgeIsBack

Wasn't this the whole point of the mid winter pagan thing?