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Re: anyone here?
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lugnet.fabuland
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Tue, 14 Dec 2004 03:17:07 GMT
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In lugnet.fabuland, Sue Ann Barber wrote:
> Now Mark, you know it snows in Australia too! Just not a lot.in some areas
> ;) Hey, we even have some very busy ski fields....
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> I suppose my comment was more about having just looked at all of the
> "winter" Christmas Cards we see at this time of year. It's always amused me
> that, despite the heat during Christmas in Australia, we still see a
> dominant image of a "winter" Christmas - fake snow on windows, cards with
> winter themes, hot roast dinner etc. Very slowly we are beginning to see the
> emergence of a "non-winter" Christmas.
Yeah, it totally makes no sense to celebrate Christmas in December in Australia.
No one knows when Jesus was born anyway, and a lot of the "Christmas" traditions
are carry overs from various "pagan" celebrations of the winter solstice. For
both Christians and otherwise, it would make a lot more sense in Australia to
celebrate Xmas June 25 or so. And in fact a lot of people in OZ are now
celebrating "yule" in July.
A few years ago I was in London for the days before Xmas. And unusually for
London at Xmas time, it was snowing like crazy. It was actually the first time I
encountered snow. And you know what's scary - even for a 30-something Aussie who
had spent every Xmas sweltering and sheltering - the "snowy" version felt very
[right]. Weird.
Nevertheless - no one is going to stop with me going down to the Sydney Fish
Markets, getting a huge bucket of fresh king prawns, then to the Vietnamese Hot
Bread shop for some mantova rolls, then having a nice cool relaxed Xmas dinner
with family.
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| "Mark Jordan" <mark.jordan@oracle.com> wrote in message news:I8M5v5.1nDE@lugnet.com... (...) Middle-Earth (...) Now Mark, you know it snows in Australia too! Just not a lot.in some areas ;) Hey, we even have some very busy ski fields.... I suppose (...) (20 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.fabuland)
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