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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 17/12/2006 : 00:13:10
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...what an Oz Christmas Day is like.
...What an American Christmas Day is like
..and what a Finnish Christmas Day is like...
If I've missed anyone out and you DON'T inhabit THESE shores...Pray tell what YOUR Christmas Day is like.
Food etc. etc...
Curiosity Killed The Cat.....
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17/12/2006 : 00:17:24
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I wanna know too! Especially the Oz Christmas day.. christmas without snow, and snowmen, and do Christmas songs sound weird in Australia?
Sara x |
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
9264 Posts |
Posted - 17/12/2006 : 00:19:31
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And do Australian Christmas cards have snowmen or snow scenes?
Sara x |
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
9264 Posts |
Posted - 17/12/2006 : 00:21:37
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And is there such thing as Father Christmas in Australia? And wouldn't he be too warm in his boots and hat and santa outfit?
Lil Miss Nosey x |
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Katariina
Wishing And Hoping
Finland
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Posted - 17/12/2006 : 06:40:17
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Thanks for asking, Carole! Finnish christmas day is mainly food, then food and maybe some food. Some go to morning church, almost all are spending quality time with family members, if they are lucky enough to have them around.
We open our presents on christmas eve, when Santa Claus (who lives in Finland, in case you didnīt know and thought he might have his residence at North Pole... no, itīs in Finland ) comes to visit and asks: "Are there any good and well behaving children around?". There usually is .
How about that Oz christmas day, then? And American... and British too  And Vera could tell us about German christmas and how people get Nokia phones as presents.
Love, Kat
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Edited by - Katariina on 17/12/2006 06:42:04 |
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17/12/2006 : 11:31:13
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Thanks Kat...Sounds lovely. 
Food and family play a big part in the British Christmas too.
....and Santa turns up, occasionally!...
Carole R. |
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marg
Sweet Inspiration
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Posted - 18/12/2006 : 09:16:40
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Australian Jingle Bells
Dashing through the bush
In a rusty Holden Ute
Kicking up the dust
Esky in the boot
Kelpie by my side
Singing Christmas song
It's Summer time and I am in
My singlet,shorts and thongs
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day. Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.
Engine's getting hot
We dodge the kangaroos
The swaggie climbs aboard,
He is welcome too
All the family's there
Sitting by the pool
Christmas Day the Aussie way
Is by the barbecue
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day. Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute
Come the afternoon
Grandpa has a doze
The kids and Uncle Bruce,
Are swimming in their clothes
The time comes 'round to go
We take the family snap
Pack the car and all shoot through
Before the washing up
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day. Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute...
marg x
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Sara
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/12/2006 : 10:03:06
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LOL!
Marg, do people really sing that or did ya make it up?
Sara x |
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marg
Sweet Inspiration
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Posted - 18/12/2006 : 10:22:20
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These are genuine,fair-dinkum Aussie Christmas songs,Sara.
AUSTRALIANS LET US BARBEQUE
Australians let us Barbeque
For Christmas time is here
We've Christmas pud and t-bone steaks
And slabs of ginger beer
We've gone and got the relies round
And we'll all have a ball
So let's kick back and have ourselves
A Yuletide free-for-all
Our forebears came from distant shores
To set this party up
So we could dine with paper plate
and polystyrene cup
On patterned plastic table cloth
We'll eat our Christmas pies
If our forebears could see us now
They'd not believe their eyes
Across this land in summer sun
In backyards small and great
We'll raise our voice in one accord
With "Merry Christmas Mate!'
In outback heat and city street
And all points in between
Come join with us and celebrate
This Aussie Christmas scene!
With sausages and coleslaw too
Then let us Barbeque.
marg x |
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treking
Wasn't Born To Follow
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/12/2006 : 10:58:41
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Its a whole different world ain't it Down Under!
Thanks for those songs Marg, but somehow I can't imagine Christmas without frost and wintery chills.
Bet the Aussie can't imagine Christmas without sunshine, barbies and shorts.
So whatever the weather or culture we all enjoy ourselves and celebrate the birth of Jesus if we are Christians.
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Mark
Sweet Inspiration
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/12/2006 : 18:16:30
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Originally posted by treking
So whatever the weather or culture we all enjoy ourselves and celebrate the birth of Jesus if we are Christians.
Trek
Absolutely Carole T!......sometimes I feel the real meaning of Christmas is all but forgotten these days!
I'd like to read what a typical American Christmas day is like.....do they have things like Sage & Onion stuffing and Roast potatoes, and Mince pies in the USA?
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