Merry Christmas
Christmas in Australia is a sunny affair, usually a barbecue outdoors or possibly a picnic at the beach. Right? Wrong! Well, not in Melbourne at least. It’s been raining for the last couple of days and we were even blessed with a hail storm during our Christmas lunch.
I spent Christmas Day with four other English guys. We ate. Lots. We drank. Lots. After several hours of the usual Christmas festivities we headed to a bar for some drinks, which was surprisingly busy, and chatted to a couple of English backpackers. Oh, we missed the Queen’s Speech. Damn!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Smokey City
Victoria is being hit by lots of bush fires at the moment and I woke up this morning to the view in this photo. The entire city is shrouded in smoke, although it doesn’t smell as strong as you might expect.
My brain can’t adjust to a December in summer. Even though I’m totally aware on a conscious level, I get an uneasy and confused feeling every time I hear a Christmas song while it’s thirty-something degrees outside!
We have our work Christmas party next week, which should be a lot of fun going by the last two that I went to. They are rather extravagant affairs with people flying in from all over the world to attend. The only problem I have with this year’s event is the theme – Hollywood. It’s a tough theme. Any ideas?