Bibbazza wrote:

> Here it is a little after 8:25 AM on a not so normal Christmas day !....By
> that I mean it is actually raining here in Sydney !...A shame for those
> Aussie families that like to have an outdoor Barbeque at the beach side or
> else where....It is usual to have temperatures up in the very late 30' and
> even up to the mid 40s on occasions !...But the high temps do not usually
> phase the folk out that like to cook a Traditional Christmas meal of Hot
> Pork ,Turkey, Chickens, Ham, and other mixed varieties as well.....But a
> mighty majority of folk seem to cook and eat a lot of Seafood these
> day's..I suppose it is the more suitable for our weather conditions....

My brother in Lennox Head wrote me that he's having brunch on the beach with
most of his community. He wrote that later, his wife and mother-in-law would
put together the "traditional" dinner, but he didn't go into specifics about
what would comprise that dinner. (If Christmas fell in summertime for me,
I'd seriously consider making kalua pork on that day.)

There won't be any Christmas feast for me; I'm working all night Christmas
Eve, and as soon as I get off work I'll be delivering presents to my
girlfriend's house. (I don't know if the little one will be awake that hour
or not. It'll be about 7 AM, but it's been cold and foggy here, so maybe
he'll sleep late.) As soon as I drop off the gifts, I'm going home to sleep
through the day, because I've got to be at work again in the late afternoon.
Such are the travails of a military contract.

Bob