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Heart Warming

For some reason being around you family at Christmas tends to bring out the worst in us but also the...

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Christmas at Home

I saw a question recently in the google search bar that asked “Do they have Christmas in Australia?” of course...

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The “Crap Parent” Christmas Award

The children being teenagers now are not getting up at 5am to see what Santa Claus has left for them...

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A Proper Christmas Tree

Up until we had children we never owned a Christmas tree, our festivities previously had been a mixture of visiting...

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The Madness of Christmas

There are countless articles in the lead up to Christmas about how to survive it, decorate for it, cook for...

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Christmas 2015 was held in the Hunter Valley, NSW. This area is north of Sydney and home to spectacular rivers,...