Ready for Christmas? Have you done everything that needs doing? Are you sure?

Have you been to the market?

Christmas market [Melbourne, Vic.], IAN02/01/93/17

 And sent your Christmas cards?

A happy Christmas, H82.96/159

Bought a tree?

 Christmas Day under “Uncle Sam,” a giant gum-tree, on the Black Spur Road, measuring forty-four feet in circumference, IAN02/01/93/17

Made a pudding?

 Christmas wishes a pudding from home, H97.248/199

And made some roodekool for your guests from Holland?

 Recipes for a merry Christmas and a guid new year from St. Nicholas and St. Andrew

And have you made your Christmas wish?

My Christmas wish, H82.96/152

And sung some carols?

 Christmas carols, IAN24/12/83/201

Then all that’s left to be said is:

‘Kindle the Christmas brand, and then
Till sun-set let it burn.
When quenched, then lay it again ‘
Till Christmas next return.’

Ancient Christmas customs and their origin (p 18).

Thanks for reading Such was life. Have a safe and happy New Year.

Australian History and Literature Team.

 Office Xmas party, Treasury Gardens, Melb., H2011.150/3089