There are things I miss too @Zoe7
Christmas Eve meant my mother and Gran would be in the kitchen all day preparing a mountain of food - we would all be together at home for Christmas dinner but spend Christmas tea-time with my mother's cousin and we would be starving by the time all the food arrived on the table but it was worth it
But on Christmas Eve the best thing was Dad taking us down to the ice-works to get ice for the ice-chest - and it was always hot - in my memory anyway - and we took turns to put pennies in the slot and this large piece of ice would come out of the top of the ice-works and trundle loudly down the chute and Dad would wrap it up in a hessian bag and carry it dripping back to the car. His shirt would be soaked through
It's amazing how clear that memory is in my mind - I can smell the eucalypts on the air - something omnipresent on hot days where many of us lived I guess - I felt as if that was the smell of Christmas - and I had forgotten - about a week before Dad would take us out to get a Christmas Tree out in the scrub somewhere - then there was the smell of the pine
I am sure many people are getting memories they had forgotten
Dec
Are there any plans for where you live for christmas?
