Nick’s world tour

So I left you as I’d arrived in Byron Bay for the Christmas week. The Bay is a little town, with a few streets of smart shops, cafe’s, bars and restaurants for the “beautful people”. They also let the riff raff in, and we’re catered for by such salubrious venues as Cheeky Monkeys. If you’ve been, you’ll know; for the others, anyone who went to the Raz in Liverpool will recognise the same sticky floors and dancing on any raised object, tables, chairs…. Throw in the resident hippy population and it was quite an interesting place! [read on]

To the tune of Jingle Bells: 

Dashing through the bush,
in a rusty Holden Ute,
Kicking up the dust,
esky in the boot,
Kelpie by my side,
singing Christmas songs,
It’s Summer time and I am in
my singlet, shorts and thongs

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

Engine’s getting hot;
we dodge the kangaroos,
The swaggie climbs aboard,
he is welcome too.
All the family’s there,
sitting by the pool,
Christmas Day the Aussie way,
by the barbecue.

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

Come the afternoon,
Grandpa has a doze,
The kids and Uncle Bruce,
are swimming in their clothes.
The time comes ’round to go,
we take the family snap,
Pack the car and all shoot through,
before the washing up.

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia
on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

 

For a translation into English see:

http://users.tpg.com.au/sharenet/c/jinglebells.html

 

 

From the sun and sand in Byron Bay:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

to all of the lovely people I have met this year (In kind of alphabetical order from my hotmail list):

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