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Jingle bells the Aussie version

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 singlets, shorts & thongs

CHORUS:
OH, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia,
On a scorching Summers' day... Hey!!
OH, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Christmas time is beaut!
Oh what fun it is
to ride in a Rusty Holden Ute!

Engine's getting hot
Dodge the Kangaroos
Swaggy climbs aboard
He is welcome too
All the family's there
Sitting by the pool
Christmas day, the Aussie way
By the barbecue !

CHORUS

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 a family snap
Then pack and all shoot through
Before the washing up

CHORUS

(by Jo Fogwell)

Sorry for such a shamefully long silence ...

We did put up 3 more albums in our photo gallery but never managed to write an entry... You might have already seen them if you paid our site a visit since October 2006:

• Blue Mountain escape, winter weekends, august 2006
• From Winter to Spring, Sept-Oct 2006
• Ladies only ! Diving in Jervis Bay, Oct 2006

Some highlights:

• Till left Australia in October... sniff ! So long mate ! here you can see him in action ... as a cook :-) And here you can have an insight into his daily diet (!). He also documented his passage in Australia quite thoroughly on his blog. It was great to work with him and we continue to be in touch for the transLucid project, our web publishing system.

• Sybille & Rob visited us in september . Some pics from Ruby the dog, enslaved by Cille , stuck on a pillow (and liking it ;-)

• We got to know Vincent, Kate and their 2 daughters Anais and Cleo. We met them the first time at the Eurofest, a village fair like atmosphere with an interesting cultural mix (Danish , Scottish, German, Austrian performers and a parade ending with the aussie National Hymn) . Cille loved to play and just be around with Anais . We ended up at their place drinking champagne.

• Pink escape for the girls ! Thanks to Sybille who organized it all for us, a bunch of females (Christine , Sybille and Agnes ) drove down to Jervis Bay to participate to a "girls only diving event" setup by deep6diving for charity purpose for The Breast Cancer foundation.

• A great weekend (w/o Cille!!) to explore the Hunter Valley wineries with Laurence and Trang, our friends and neighbors

We are now enjoying the presence of agnes' mother , sylviane , for christmas and NYE. And will soon welcome Olivier and Pascale to join the party.

We'll set up an holiday blog soon as we plan to go for a road trip to Queensland with camper vans and all !!!

Merry Christmas to all of you , plenty of kisses and stay tuned !

Peace, love and much more !

A&B&C