Happy Christmas

Monday 25th December

Happy Christmas to you all from Monbulk in the Dandenong Ranges, Australia. It’s just been hailing today, its the coldest Christmas on record. Normally its baking hot, I took a little sample of the English weather in a little pot around with me, got it through Australian customs and let it free this morning in Melbourne. Just so I feel at home. A near on white christmas for me. Amazing!

It has been the coldest Melbourne Christmas on record, 14.5 degrees, with free snow and blankets and blankets of rain . A hot Christmas in Australia? I bet its warmer back in the UK. I was made most welcome at my friends’ parents place for Christmas day, as the presents from under the tree were dished out, even being so far away from home I had a gift or two to open which was very very sweet. Most enjoyable. Despite the appauling weather, christmas dinner was a delicious spread of cold meats and salad, most tasty and a fantastic experience to share it with such a welcoming family, all throughout which the UK hadn’t even woken up to see what Santa had delivered. Hat’s off to the scrumptious “chocolate” christmas pudding made by my friends’ mum, full of fruit, nuts and of course chocolate. A totally brilliant Christmas day all round, despite being my first Christmas away from home and the appauling weather I thoroughly enjoyed the day, of course to top it all off I was still able to have a lovely cup of tea or two.