Christmas Australia

The Myer 2011 Christmas Parade in Brisbane

Here in Australia the closest you will get to John Lewis or Debenhams is a store called Myer. We also have a store called David Jones, but today I’m talking about Myer because they went to the trouble of putting on a Christmas parade here in Brisbane. Apparently, they’ve been doing this kind of parade [...]

Buying the Christmas Beers in Australia

21 December 2011 Life in Australia

I think most of you must know by now that I love Australia. I live in Brisbane, and I love Brisbane too. Regular readers will also have noticed that I love beer, not lager type beer, but bitter. Imagine my delight then, when I was doing beer shopping for Christmas, to see a new brew [...]

Christmas Trees in Australia.

14 December 2011 Australia vs UK

Not only is Christmas in the middle of summer here in Australia, but they also have school summer holidays at Christmas time too! Yes, I know that makes sense, summer holidays in winter would be stupid! But at the same time, a six-week summer holiday break with Christmas slap bang in the middle of it [...]

Summer in Australia: Time for Christmas Activities!

6 December 2010 Australian Climate

For today’s post I was going to tell you about all the Christmas activities that are scheduled to take place here in Brisbane. And there are plenty of them! They’ve already started. On Friday we went to Brookfield for the evening, the Bush Christmas event took place at the Showgrounds. No need for me to [...]

Christmas Shopping in Australia

3 December 2010 Entertainment Australia

I went out the other day to do some Christmas shopping here in Australia. I took myself off to one of those retail parks, you know, big stores out in the open. Here’s a picture of me (pics taken by my little girl, Elizabeth, at no cost. Don’t you love child labour?) with Santa…… But [...]

Christmas Shopping in Australia

30 June 2010 Life in Australia

Okay, we haven’t even hit July yet, Christmas is a very long way away and yet I am going to talk about Christmas shopping in Australia? Am I nuts? Sure, it’s a good idea not to leave it until Christmas Eve but to get your Christmas shopping organised now would be crazy, wouldn’t it? No, [...]

And So This Is Christmas in Australia

8 December 2009 Entertainment Australia

But the weekend wasn’t all back breaking gardening work, I managed to squeeze in some fun too. That’s assuming that you will agree with me in saying the weekend starts at around five o’clock on a Friday afternoon. Because that is when we set off for Brookfield. I have mentioned Brookfield before, because back in [...]