Why the roast today?

Merry Christmas!

Some thoughts ranting on elements of Christmas culture in New Zealand (some we could do with, and some without).

I was at a house a couple of days ago and being a primo day I went to open the french doors. My impediment, icicle Christmas lights hanging from the door frame. The irony struck me.

Our Christmas culture in NZ is changing thankfully.

My parents generation and their ilk are clinging onto the empire’s representation of Christmas being about winter, snow, sleigh’s etc. Hence we eat hot roast meals inside while the sun is booming down outisde and the lawn is gagging to be run upon.

Christmas in this part of the world should be the complete oppoisite from the white Christmas many of us have been accustomed to. The only connection to snow I can think of that is remotely relevant is Santa.

NZ at Christmas is better accompanied by:

• BBQ
• Beer
• Sunburn
• Waterfights
• Water slides
• Backyard cricket

Images of irony on Christmas day:

• Icicle lights and any other winter pretending paraphenalia
• Roasting hot meals inside when it’s mid-summer
• Steamy kitchen and dining room windows when it’s 25 degrees outside

Let’s as a country embrace our own style of Christmas, doing away with the northern hemisphere’s white Christmas. It’s been a while since the british settlers arrived and it’s high time we stopped this hot meal nonsense.

I feel anyway.