Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Christmas in Australia is rather different to the Northern Hemisphere. A few people have a traditional Christmas Dinner and Christmas Tea but it's usually too hot to have a big hot meal in the middle of the day. The people have changed the times and many of us have a barbecue with prawns, all kinds of meat and salads.
In my house we are having cold meat and salads with hot new potatoes including sweets. The traditional sweets include a Christmas Pudding, Pavlova or Trifle, maybe a bit of each, I might also make a Mango Cheese Cake.
The temperature is predicted to be 27 deg C (F80.6) down here on the Island of Tasmania, Australia.
The first Christmas celebrations in Australia have their roots in late 1788 and were introduced by the convicts of the First Fleet, who arrived in Sydney Harbour early the same year.
Alabama in the USA was the first State to officially recognize Christmas in 1836, so I read.
Oh, I nearly forgot - Kangaroos pull Santas sleigh in Australia.😉 A link to Catarina's blog where she found a photo of Santa and the kangaroos is here .
Christmas Nails, nothing fancy.
