How you know its Christmas in Australia.

[Dev]

 

[Shanazel]

So perhaps I should not wish you a warm and merry Christmas?

Good to see you, Dev!

 

[Ariadne]

Looks like our summers. Knock on wood you won't have a bad fire season.

How about just a Merry Christmas?

 

[Dev]

Its going to be a very hot and dry Christmas for us.
Hello Shanazel,
Best wishes and yes I missed your wit, your up side down humor and all your interesting posts.
Regards

 

[Shanazel]

Hey, I'm on top of the world; you're the one Down Under.

 

[Dev]

Still we are a day ahead of the rest of the world ...Living in the bottom has some advantages.

 

[Shanazel]

My father used to talk about living in "the bottoms" but he meant the Red River valley. It really is good to see you back here, Dev. What have you been up to down there?

 

[Kashmir]

Here in NZ (where we get Christmas even earlier), our local Santa arrives for the Christmas parade in a surf life saving boat (but he still wears the red suit and the padding in the heat).

 

[Shanazel]

Bless his little traditional heart.

Have y'all recovered from the earthquake or does repair work go on and on?

 

[Kashmir]

THe repair work goes on and on. But an end is in sight - maybe 10 years? The other day I drove around and videoed the state of play: https://youtu.be/z3mZs1mUNUo