The Mezzanine

There are some Australian Christmas carols and songs ("The Three Drovers", "Carol of the Birds", etc - I'm not too sure of the status of "Six White Boomers" these days) but generally we get the standard Northern Hemisphere stuff, complete with the emphasis on snow, cold weather and so on. Given the average temperature in most of the country over Chrimble is something over 30C (and that most of the country doesn't get snow even in the middle of winter - half the country is tropical, for crying out loud) it does tend to come across as a bit of wishful thinking.

Then again, I have a seasonal rant about things like "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and "In The Deep Midwinter" anyway, because it's clear they're written by people who haven't ever really considered weather conditions anywhere outside Britain.