Top 25 Facts about the Rockefeller Christmas Tree

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is well known worldwide. In Australia we are familiar with the Rockefeller Center because of TV shows broadcast from the NBC studios (The Today Show, Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Saturday Night Live), TV shows based at the Center...

Christmas in Australia

Family Christmas Traditions in Australia Christmas in Australia for me is influenced by my English childhood and various traditions that were common to the country and my family. Today we have a guest article by an Australian writer, someone who was born and bred here, and has lived here all her life. Thank...

Advent Calendar 2011 Day 2 – Living Advent Calendars

Living Advent Calendars are very special versions of Advent Calendars. They are made up of Christmas Lights and decorations being displayed in houses and other buildings. A new display is lit up each day from 1st-24th December. Here are just a few. Perhaps you could search online for others. In Hull in...

If Santa Used the Computer

Top Ten Reasons Santa does not use the computer: Each time he went out he would have to re-boot or the sleigh might crash The presents may fall out of the net He wouldn’t use chimneys but You Tubes Toys would get mixed up – he only knows email addresses and is not sure whether a child is...

Christmas traditions and myths at Yuletide in Norway

I am pleased to introduce a guest post by my friend from Norway, Renny Bakke Amundsen, who is author of the popular blog RennyBA’s Terella: Christmas in Norway brings a lot of traditions, myths, habits and cultural highlights. Remember, we are on top of the northern hemisphere (the capital, Oslo; 60°N)...

An Australian Christmas

Today’s children’s Advent Calendar page features two children’s Christmas videos.   While searching for these I came across the following Australian versions of Christmas songs. If you live in Australia you are most likely familiar with the first two. Rolf Harris and Six White...