Thursday, 23 December 2021

No White Christmas in Oz.

The priestess has gone home to Australia for Christmas this year. I always found it quite inconceivable that the sun should be almost overhead on a day which is based on the midwinter festival to us northern Europeans. I just looked at the clock and realised that she’s only recently had breakfast on Christmas Eve, lightly clad and probably getting a suntan. 
  
It’s Christmas Eve in Sydney
The sun is burning hot
Old Santa’s in his bathing trunks
And doesn’t care a jot
 
No icy lanes or leafless trees
No reindeer pulling sleighs
What do they use for Christmas cards
On strangely summ'ry days

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