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Post by braided-rug on Nov 12, 2005 10:46:56 GMT 10
Do you know, until now I did not know which day is the first day of your winter, still occasionally surprised you are still in autumn. So now I am thinking it is December 21 right before Christmas Day! Does that also follow for June 21? www.calendar-updates.com/Holidays/US/winter.htmVery shortly it will be the first day of summer in Australia on December 1. |
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Post by lucie on Nov 13, 2005 0:18:28 GMT 10
Oh my goodness! Isn't something...it's summer where you are while it's winter right here! lol Tell me BR, do you have Christmas december 25th?....I imagine it means you have Christmas in summer. So all those *Winter, snowy songs about Christmas must not be something popular where you live...?...or is it? I'm really interested to hear how it is where you live.  |
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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2005 0:53:29 GMT 10
Br, yes the first day of winter here officially is December 21.
First day of summer is June 21
Fall equinox this year was Sept 22
First day of spring was March 20
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 13, 2005 8:56:57 GMT 10
How do you remember those other two dates? I guess I always knew the June 21 one, because it is near my dh's birthday and also because my Mum doesn't like winter at all and feels much better when the days start getting longer again after June 21.
My daughter has a box of Christmas cards and they have snow on them. As a child all our cards were Northern Hemisphere themed.
Most Australians don't live near snow. I am very fortunate. It snows in Victoria on Mt. Buffalo, Mt. Bulla, Mt. Hotham, Falls Creek, Lake Mountain etc. There are other snowfalls on the hills along the Great Divide for a few days each year.
Lucie at the moment it is unseasonally cool, but my roses are flowering and the leaves are on the trees. Christmas is on Dec. 25. People go out in the warmth to look at people's light displays, but the kids have to wait until it gets dark, which is about 9pm. My family still enjoy plum pudding etc. My step-father is more into pavlova, which is meringue case filled with whipped cream and decorated with fruit.
I didn't know that you like to call most snowmen "Frosty". I saw a cute one in the window of a store when I went out with my Mum last week. We have a snow spray that we can spray on pinecones or windows if we like.
We have all the traditional carols at Carols by Candlelight in Melbourne. And I was brought up on is it Bing? I have a blank, everyone is crowding me here.
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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2005 10:00:54 GMT 10
BR, those dates are listed on our calendars. I like to know the first day of each season, so I check to make sure. It usually falls pretty much the same date each year.
Would you be speaking of Bing Crosby?
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 13, 2005 11:30:24 GMT 10
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 13, 2005 11:43:33 GMT 10
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 13, 2005 11:53:11 GMT 10
Popular Christmas songs here are:
So This Is Christmas (a newish song)
Jingle Bells
Santa's Coming To Town
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
We Three Kings
Silent Night
Silver Bells
Let It Snow
Ode To Joy
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
The First Noel
Little Drummer Boy
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 13, 2005 11:58:48 GMT 10
"Greeting cards The many questions received about an Australian Christmas caused me to consider our Christmas greeting cards design. Do we have cards with an Australian theme or are they all frost, ice and snow. I therefore gathered together over two hundred cards and sorted them into several groups. The results by theme were:- Holly, candles, doves etc 23% Traditional Christmas scenes 19% Featuring Father Christmas 18% Snow & winter scenes 13% Other styles 11% Religious 10% Australian scenes & images 6% It appears from this small sample that Australians still have in there minds the traditions of the holly, candles, doves and trees type Christmas which has been passed down to them by their ancestors most of whom migrated from the northern hemisphere." From: users.tpg.com.au/sharenet/c/christmas.htmlHave a look and you will see an Australian card. Tell me what you think, or you may all get one for Christmas! There are probably less wacky ones. Scroll down and on the right there is one with this written under it: Australian card Santa with koala, kangaroo & platypus. |
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Post by frugalmel on Nov 15, 2005 2:20:38 GMT 10
What a great site BR. I love the card they had there. This reminds me of 1998-1999 when we were stationed in Panama'. It was the middle of their dry season (like summer) and we filled the wading pool for Seth to play in. Something we couldn't do in Illinois, where we are from, on Dec 25. |
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Post by ellise on Nov 15, 2005 2:26:23 GMT 10
br and Mel, I remember our first Christams in Hawaii, When my family called to wish us a Merry Christmas we were sun bathing on the Lanai (porch or balcony)! They all thought we were nuts! lol
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Post by braided-rug on Nov 15, 2005 10:24:37 GMT 10
How wonderful you have both experienced a hot Christmas. What did you think?
Some people have this bet with themselves to get their garden to produce potatoes for Christmas dinner.
I our first house, we knew it was Christmas when the bottle brush was flowering or the gardenias. A bottlebrush is like a bottlebrush in a red, it is a native tree or shrub.
I got a recipe magazine called Table yesterday and didn't notice the free Christmas CD with it. Some extra songs on that were:
Hark!The Herald Angels Sing
Joy To The World
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Christmas Tree
& Sheep May Safely Graze.
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