Home is where the heart is
I am hosting Christmas Day again this year! Yikes, I am not sure why I do it to myself, but…
Vienna
It has to be said that Vienna does the most excellent Christmas. The Rathaus (yes, it’s a funny name, my…
Merry Christmas
As December rolls around we find countless articles on how to survive Christmas, like it is an endurance race and…
Catering for a Crowd
The only time of the year I had turkey was at Christmas. It was exotic to me as a child…
Beach Walk
We couldn’t be near the beach and not take a walk on Christmas Day, it is a striking part of…
Christmas Magic
The very first thing we used to do at the chime of December was choose a Christmas tree; this was…
BBQ Christmas
Another phrase you hear a lot is “put another prawn on the barbie” courtesy of an Australian Tourism advertisement from…
Festive Seaside
There seems to be a bit of an urban myth that all Australians spend Christmas at the beach. Well that…
Twenty Sixteen
Christmas 2016 was spent at home; along with a few years in between, we only spend Christmas in Melbourne sporadically…
The Christmas Jumper
This brings me to the rather recent (and quite alarming) trend of the Christmas jumper. I’m really not sure where…