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Some True Blue Aussie Christmas Traditions
By Michaela Scherr, Fri Dec 9th
Christmas would have to be my favorite time of the year. I remember my white Christmases in Europe as a little girl.There was the smell of cinnamon, nutmeg and gingerbreadbiscuits, and my parents drinking eggnog as we decorated ourtree. Snow glistened outside and groups of children with theirlanterns alight could be heard singing Christmas Carols as theymoved from house to house in exchange for chocolates and sweetsthat residents would throw out their window. That's when the madscramble began trying to look for sweets in several feet ofsnow.
I sometimes yearn for those magical, mystical years andreminisce especially when I listen to Bing Crosby's "I'mDreaming of a White Christmas". Our way of compensating for the lack of cold weather in Decemberis by having Christmas in July celebrations with all thetrimmings including weather close to that of the northernhemisphere (well almost - anything north of the Tropic ofCapricorn hasn't been included, sorry). In Australia many of us still write cards with snow and icescenes, people ice-skating on frozen lakes and pictures of cutereindeers. Not only would Santa melt from the heat wearing hisred winter woolies, his reindeer would die of heat exhaustionworking in such sweltering heat! No reindeers and sleighs for us - we have 'six white boomers'(boomers: large kangaroos) thanks to a song by Rolf Harris fromthe '60's. I've seen our Santa pulling a surfboard wearingsunscreen, board shorts and hat, zipping through the southernskies. Yes - he's our man! A far cry from the drunk Santa I remember riding in the back ofa ute (ute: utility vehicle) in the country many years ago. Lastseen swigging on a long neck (long neck: tall bottle of beer)trying
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to articulate "ho ho ho and a Merry Christmas to all" asthe ute slowly drove down each street in my neighborhood. Carols by Candlelight are a tradition 'down under' during theweeks leading up to Christmas at many venues around towns andcities of Australia. Christmas lunch here in this great southern land is a differentexperience. As Christmas Day closes in the temperature continuesto rise as does the humidity here in Brisbane. You knowChristmas is here when you start hearing the continuous shrillsounds of cicadas (large winged insect) on hot, cloudless days.I know many still insist on cooking the turkey, other roasts aswell as roast vegetables and gravy in the stifling heat (I diduntil recently), as well as fruitcake and custard. Not everyonehas air conditioning here so a cool breeze is often top of thewish list. So what is a traditional Christmas lunch down this way? 1.Prawns (prawn: shrimp) for the barbecue - on ice and withlemon wedges; 2.Fresh Fish from the market - arrive very early (if you'venever had this experience before you'll know what I mean whenyou do); 3.Tossed green Salad, bowl of beetroot with onion, and someasparagus; 4.Snags (snags: sausages), lamb chops - lamb cutlets if you canafford it; 5.For 'afters' (afters: after lunch) Beach towel, togs, thongs,sunscreen, cricket bat and ball (thongs: cheap rubber opensandals, togs: bathing costume); 6.An esky full of beers (esky: receptacle to place allalcoholic drinks - on occasion you may get lucky and find roomfor other items but don't get too excited); 7.A few bottles of drink coolers for the girls; 8.Wine for the more refined; 9.More beers for the esky; and 10.A laid back attitude. With lunch done, we look forward to our the great tradition ofspending Boxing Day watching the start of the Sydney to Hobartyacht race, The Boxing Day Test cricket at the Melbourne CricketGround (MCG), or by spending the day lazing at home or spendingit down the beach. Having been outside once today, I'm very aware of how hot andhumid it is and apparently it's not going to get cooler any timesoon. So as I sit here looking at the cloudless sky and writingthis article, I am indeed "Dreaming of a white Christmas, ifonly in my dreams!" Merry Christmas and safe holidays everyone from BrisbaneAustralia. Michaela ScherrTransformational Coach About the author:Copyright requirements are that it remains with Michaela Scherrand for the link to be clickable or 'live' athttp://www.michaelascherr.com Michaela is a Transformational Coach, certified practitioner ofNeuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), writer and intuitive who istotally committed to helping others create positive and actionoriented changes to their lives. Michaela is the author ofseveral e-books and publisher of From My Desk
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