Oh how jolly

Yesterday as I was watched my sister make a middle of the table thingy I realised that the fresh flowers [gladioli = summery] and sunshine doesn’t really fit with the picture we get on cards and other stuff. It has always been one of those things to think about for me, so mum and my sister just laughed and told me to whine about it somewhere else.
This is the southern hemisphere get a life!!!
You would think that by now we would have some Christmas cards with sunshine on them! Ok, Santa wearing his big thick jacket is passable but oh please…
Q. A snowman – what does that have to do with Christmas time?
A. Nothing at all except for the fact that in some places at Christmas time it snows.
Please if you are sending me a Christmas card have something Christmassy on it! I’m having a hard enough time getting into the Christmas sprit. If I received a snowy something it would so kill my sprit that I would be in mourning until the 26th of December. [Then the real party begins, new years! Yay!]
But thinking about it we should invent something Christmassy that isn’t scabbed off some Northern Hemisphere tradition.
Ding dong merrily on high id like to eat a mince pie [meaty mince…]
Ding dong merrily on low don’t send me something to do with snow…oh that is so cheesy… anyway.
On the bright side we have Christmas lilies, pohutukawa… oh…. and water fights!
I love summer.
Last year summer was freezing. We went shopping on Christmas Eve and it was raining and felt very much like jacket weather. We soberly remembered the time it snowed in Dunedin on Christmas day [ages ago I wasn’t there thankfully] and prayed that it wouldn’t snow here, - not until winter. That weather totally dampened our Christmas sprit that it wasn’t funny. We were so annoyed as we drove home that we hardly had time for singing Christmas carols. The thought that some big factory somewhere was emitting greenhouse gasses and bringing on global warming almost put us off our Christmas bickies. Then we remembered that this was really yummy and that we only get it at Christmas [and eating heaps is the essence of Christmas] we dug in and prepared for the tummy ache. Of course the tummy ache comes the next day, and then you have a week to digest before new years. Ahhh… New Years resolutions, it’s a good thing we have all the eating before then…