Merry Christmas from Australia

[ROA457]

Thanks Mate, forecast is looking good, 79F and sunny, perfect Christmas weather!

Updated to 86F, nice….except the range is closed for some holiday

 

[Colonial Boy]

Merry Today to all and may your flints always spark in the New Year.
From the Down Under New England where the night was cool and the morn is sunny but nippy.

 

[Polecat_Tom]

And a Merry Christmas to all from the Willamette Valley of Oregon.

 

[Swagman]

Best wishes from Brissy, looks like a good one today. Cold beer and hot turkey dinner. Stay safe and enjoy

Thanks, having a Pimms and trying to recover after the massive Christmas lunch!

 

[Swagman]

Merry Today to all and may your flints always spark in the New Year.
From the Down Under New England where the night was cool and the morn is sunny but nippy.

Best wishes Colonial Boy

 

[Swagman]

Merry Christmas from the frozen prairie of Kansas.

Always wondered what a snowy Christmas would be like! Shorts and beer weather here on Heathcote.

 

[aussie pete]

Only one more sleep (down here) until Christmas day. Wishing all of you on this forum a very Merry Christmas and a great New Year!

Hi @Swagman! I'm sitting back reading the forum after a lovely Christmas Day with family, lots of food and drink, visitors have just left, wife is nodding off on the lounge.

I love your olde classic card . Beautiful. I'm not sure if you are aware, but the line on the card is a reference to a fine poem by Robert Herrick written back in the early 1600s. The poem is a Carpe Diem type of piece - Seize the Day! Ironically, that Kangaroo seems to be doing anything but: sitting back reclining, fishing and drinking, pipe on his blanket ready for leisurely smoking ...

Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the best wishes. All the very best to you and yours too!

Here ends the lesson ; and my apologies too, retired English teacher .

Thanks again.

Cheers, Pete

 

[Swagman]

Hi @Swagman! I'm sitting back reading the forum after a lovely Christmas Day with family, lots of food and drink, visitors have just left, wife is nodding off on the lounge.

I love your olde classic card . Beautiful. I'm not sure if you are aware, but the line on the card is a reference to a fine poem by Robert Herrick written back in the early 1600s. The poem is a Carpe Diem type of piece - Seize the Day! Ironically, that Kangaroo seems to be doing anything but: sitting back reclining, fishing and drinking, pipe on his blanket ready for leisurely smoking ...

Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the best wishes. All the very best to you and yours too!

Here ends the lesson ; and my apologies too, retired English teacher .

Thanks again.

Cheers, Pete

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Hi Pete,
Have just arrived back home from the daughters place, as usual mountains of food and drink! Tomorrow is recovery day. Thanks for attaching the poem, I did wonder where the quote on the card had come from. I have a number of images of Australian Christmas cards from the 1880's to the First World War and some of them are quite eccentric to our modern eyes!

 

[oldwood]

Merry Christmas friend

 

[LSLibelo]

Merry Christmas

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

Merry Christmas from N.E. Pa.

 

[Eutycus]

Merry Christmas from Texas!

 

[Tenring]

Merry Christmas.

 

[CyrusP]

Merry Christmas everyone!!! My best to you and your families. 2025 WILL be a very good year!

 

[bladegrinder]

Merry Christmas from the Florida Panhandle!

 

[John Henry]

Merry Christmas

 

[Cruzatte]

Always wondered what a snowy Christmas would be like! Shorts and beer weather here on Heathcote.

So have I. We don't get white Christmases very often. In 2009 we received 3.1 in. of snow on Christmas Eve. Kansas City got about an inch on Christmas morning, 2022.

Similarly I've always wondered what it's like to hang out at the beach in shorts, with a beer & a few shrimps on the barbie and singing "Sleigh bells ring/Are you list'nin'/ In the lane snow is glis'nin'..." or "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..." or "In the bleak mid-winter, frosty winds made moan..." Man, that would really mess with my head. I'd probably laugh my head off, everyone around thinking I'd gone mad. "Nah mate," says one "he's just another Yank."

 

[Hatman/2nd line]

Merry Christmas from PA!

 

[Swagman]

So have I. We don't get white Christmases very often. In 2009 we received 3.1 in. of snow on Christmas Eve. Kansas City got about an inch on Christmas morning, 2022.

Similarly I've always wondered what it's like to hang out at the beach in shorts, with a beer & a few shrimps on the barbie and singing "Sleigh bells ring/Are you list'nin'/ In the lane snow is glis'nin'..." or "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..." or "In the bleak mid-winter, frosty winds made moan..." Man, that would really mess with my head. I'd probably laugh my head off, everyone around thinking I'd gone mad. "Nah mate," says one "he's just another Yank."

You need to cone down one year to experience it! I must admit my pet hate at this time of the year is any song mentioning snow or a white Christmas, also going to see the local Christmas decorations in 100F heat to find they are all festooned on fake snow!

 

[Coinneach]

Merry Christmas from those of us not down under...

Thank you, and everything a truly Merry Christmas is to you all over there in the Americas.