The Bright Bright Lights of Amaroo

ant said :

It must be related to the experience one has as a kid that sort-of implants the tone of christmas. First US Xmas was in Vermont, and Vermonters INVENTED Xmas, they really did! All those cards you get with the white houses and churchs with steeples and delicate trees etc, that’s Vermont. And it just felt really flat. You need cicadas, and the cricket.

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It must be related to the experience one has as a kid that sort-of implants the tone of christmas. First US Xmas was in Vermont, and Vermonters INVENTED Xmas, they really did! All those cards you get with the white houses and churchs with steeples and delicate trees etc, that’s Vermont. And it just felt really flat. You need cicadas, and the cricket.

Conversely Ant, I was born in London and had several cold Christmases. These still feel more like Xmas to me than hot ones (of which I’ve had 33). Weird i know.

I’ve had 6 white christmases, and believe me, they’re over-rated. Plus it doesn’t feel like christmas because, it’s cold. They’re a bit of a non-event.

Hey, Jonathon Reynolds has just added a fantastic video to the GCC website of the Christmas lights in Ngunnawal and Amaroo!!

kambah has a street that is usually blanketed in lights, bissenberger i think it is.

here is a link to all the displays in canberra:

http://www.canberraonline.com.au/news/pressreleases.php?pid=1159

if you want to see good lights have a look at the house on the corner of esau place and norlunga st bonython!!

there awesome

Merry Xmas all !

Monday Chance of an afternoon shower. Min 10 Max 29
Tuesday Afternoon shower or thunderstorm. Min 14 Max 30
Wednesday Fine, partly cloudy. Min 14 Max 30
Thursday Fine, partly cloudy. Min 13 Max 30
Friday Showers developing in the afternoon. Min 13 Max 31
Saturday Mostly fine. Min 15 Max 31

Bring it on!

Happy Christmas everyone.

have a bonza chrissy, jb… and everyone else, for that matter (not that i’m off anywhere)

What year did it snow in Canberra on Xmas Day?? I remember waking up with a massive hangover and my mother said it had snowed. Of course i thought she was bullsh*tting but no it really had snowed.