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If you're in Oz, do you do Christmas in July?

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lborgia · 25/12/2015 23:49

Just thought of it because i was too sick to cook, Dh dogs a great job, but used a pudding someone gave us rather than the delicious one i had ready. I don't think it will keep 12 months Grin

I do end up wearing the odds jumper with snowy scenes because i want to wallow in the chill, but have you gone as far as a proper dinner and decorations? !

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ovenchips · 25/12/2015 23:51

Say what now?Xmas Grin

AlwaysBeYourself · 26/12/2015 01:08

No one I know in Australia celebrates Christmas in July. Christmas is December just like everywhere else.

Archduke · 26/12/2015 01:10

Nope, we don't but some do.

Why don't you have your lovely pudding on NYE or NYday?

LadyCassandra · 26/12/2015 01:22

No. But we did eat last years pudding yesterday if that helps?!

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lborgia · 26/12/2015 01:32

Mm, well i might just choose the coldest day and eat it all with a spoon! Lady C, if I'd made it i would expect it to last the year, but as it's bought i have no faith.

I don't think it's instead of normal Christmas, just am extra one :-)

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LadyCassandra · 26/12/2015 09:37

We did Christmas in July the first year we got here, so 4.5 years ago. It was fun, there were 4 families, we all contributed a plate/course and put up a tree and did secret Santa. Hasn't been repeated but that may be due to the transient nature of where we live, the same group of people are not around anymore!

enderwoman · 26/12/2015 11:05

They celebrate it in December but eat outdoors and have a lighter Christmas dinner than we do.

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lborgia · 26/12/2015 11:20

?? I'm not sure you understood my post ender, I've lived here in Oz for 8 years and I know that we all celebrate in December.

Most people i know don't eat outside because it's either way too hot or raining (well in the last few years anyway), and they all eat like piglets Grin .

What i was asking for was experiences of doing Christmas in July, which is a thing, as I've missed out a bit this week.

It does sound a bit of a faff, i might just keep the pudding til winter and serve it after a big Sunday lunch .

Thanks all!

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GrinAndTonic · 26/12/2015 11:23

I have never celebrated it or known anyone else to do it. However a lot of hotels or restaurants seems to do it as a gimmick. I could not be arsed.

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lborgia · 26/12/2015 11:38

Ah, maybe it's the hotel thing. Thanks grin, makes sense that it's another opportunity to spend money Smile

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Archduke · 26/12/2015 11:39

Big LOLZ to those misunderstanding your OP Grin

Squirrelsmum · 26/12/2015 11:47

I keep saying every year we are going to do it, but it never happens. There are a few towns that get into the spirit of it and will put on a spread for all and sundry on the range inland from us. I would love a white Christmas and I hate the goddam heat and flies that accompany Christmas lunch.

AlwaysBeYourself · 26/12/2015 16:03

So is it just something the Brits do then? Im an Australian and never heard of it.

SellFridges · 26/12/2015 16:06

I have friends in NZ who have a mid-winter Christmas. They're all Brits originally and don't have a full roast on Christmas Day. In July they have a full meal and do secret Santa with gifts from charity shops.

Aussie13 · 26/12/2015 16:29

Plenty of Brits in Perth do Xmas in July , cos it's colder & dark more winter like instead of 36 degrees

AlwaysBeYourself · 26/12/2015 16:31

Ah so it is a "brit" thing then?

SavoyCabbage · 26/12/2015 16:32

No but I've done a Christmas dinner at Easter instead.

Aussie13 · 26/12/2015 17:25

Xmas in July a Brit thing yes!

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lborgia · 26/12/2015 19:34

Squirrelsmum , I'm truly disturbed by your post as i always call my children Squirrel, and the rest of your sentence sounds like me too - woo!

sell love the idea of secret Santa from charity shops, must remember that.

Yes it's a brit thing but it's also a Blue Mountains thing I now realise. Lots of sydney goes to the blue mountains in winter, inundated on weekends where there's snow, and this year when i was there lots of places were advertising Christmas in July.

Yule Fest

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JassyRadlett · 26/12/2015 19:35

Have a Solstice party OP - keeping the idea of Yule!

AlwaysBeYourself · 26/12/2015 19:41

Your not in Australia though are you Ilborgia? If you are then you are up very early. Smile

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lborgia · 26/12/2015 20:10

Oh always - i am and i am! Various ailments make it impossible for me to sleep in even on a day like today when i really could! So I'm looking up snowy Christmases, how to ship uk chocolate, and costs of flights to London Grin

It will pass but i have to wallow occasionally.

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AlwaysBeYourself · 26/12/2015 20:30

Awwwww. Don't worry, no snow here but lots of terrible flooding.
My parents were over here last month and they went back just in time. They were feeling the cold and starting to get fed up of the rain. They are so happy to be back home there.

GrinAndTonic · 26/12/2015 21:52

Why have snow when you can have flooding, fires, heatwaves and storms?

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lborgia · 26/12/2015 23:24

Well you wouldn't believe it but I'm wearing a jumper and jeans today - very grateful not to have the bushfires in Victoria, or the storms in the UK.

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