Christmas in New Zealand is celebrated with blues skies and warm sunny days, a time for families to gather to exchange gifts and good wishes, to attend a Church service for many, to celebrate Christ, the reason for the season,then to over indulge in great feasts of food. For many generations Christmas dinner was an exact copy of English dinners with roast turkey or chicken with all the trimmings, plus a ham, followed by hot heavy Christmas puddings and Christmas cake, but now days many head to the beach for a barbecue or picnic, a much more relaxed meal, but, I shall be taking my old Mother along with us to Springlands Tavern to a Christmas Dinner buffet, as we have for the last 10 years. so we shall be having a big feast of the old style Christmas dinner. This way I don't have to prepare all that food and nor do I have to clear up afterwards, instead we can just rest up and 'enjoy' the feel of an over full tummy, and remember Christmas's gone by.
Christmas lilies; a sure sign that it is Christmas, although many people suffer from allergies still lots of us Kiwis have a big bunch of these beautiful lilies in-doors, bringing a fragrance that is rather over powering but very Christmasy to us.
This is My World at Christmas time.
A warm Merry Christmas to you all.
21 comments:
Lovely flowers. Happy Christmas to you and yours.
Glennis: A very nice post for christmas downunder. We think of the Easter Lillies rather then Christmas. Have a wonderful holiday.
Very nice to read how is Xmas celebrated in NZ. Pretty differently in this part of the world, at least for two reasons: the climate (much cooler these days) and also because our big fest is the meal on the 25, instead of the dinner on the 24.
Merry Christmas.
A totally different Christmas to mine, wet and windy.
for us Christmas is wet and cold ... but not snowy (unfortunately)... thanks for your seasons greetings !
Enjoy your Christmas. It was 9 deg F here this morning.
Thanks for your post.
Such a different Christmas to here in the UK. Beautiful flowers. Hope you have a good Christmas!
Very good blog with exelent posts meny informations and beautiful photos!
In Greece we have a lot of cold, but without snow!
My best wishes for Merry Christmas too
Nicely shot! What smells of Christmas here is usually green and coniferous. Amazing what a difference it makes to have Christmas in summer.
Lovely Christmas Lilies. Nice to go out with your mother for Christmas dinner.
Lovely flowers, and so nice to see them this time of year.
Nice to read about your Christmas down under.
Merry Christmas from Ontario, Canada!
these are really lovely flowers and my girlfriend would certainly love them.
anyways, have a joyful christmas to you and your love ones... from my islands to yours.
the lilies are beautiful and I love the smell. My sister in law lived in Australia for 6 yrs and she and her family miss the BBQ on the beach on Christmas Day.
Thank you for visiting my site - I hope you will pop in again. Happy Christmas, Judith
Le tue foto sono meravigliose.-
Se molto fortunato a vivere in New Zelan.-
Dai un abbraccio a tutto quel tuo sole !. :-)
Thank you for visiting my blog from New Zealand. Good to get the chande to have a window opened to this wonderful country.
Hallo from Gemany
Hartmut
How cool to see what Christmas is like in your part of the world. The lilies are beautiful.
Here it is cold and the land is gone to sleep. But the lights people put up are kinda neat.
I wish you for New Year 2009 it gives peace, health, chance and happiness!
Thank you for your good wishes! We wish you and Erle a wonderful new year 2009!!
!!!! WISH YOU AND YOURS A SUPER 2009 !!!!
What BEAUTIFUL pictures! We had a beautiful day here yesterday and it was a taste of spring. Today it's back to typical December weather! Thanks for your comment! :)
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