Christmas is celebrated in different ways around the world, and that is true even here on the Darling Downs, where Santa needs something a bit stronger than eggnog to keep him going…
Up until Christmas Day, there is still time to see some spectacular Christmas lights displays, whether it be Roy Close in Westbrook, Ashford Drive in Wyreema or many other streets and houses in Cambooya, Greenmount, Hodgson Vale, Top Camp, Nobby and so on.
An insight into how Christmas in our region was celebrated in the past can be found in Steele Rudd’s On Our Selection Chapter XXVI, which ends with this:
“All night they danced—until the cocks crew—until the darkness gave way to the dawn—until the fowls left the roost and came round the door—until it was Christmas Day!”
This article appeared in On Our Selection News, 22 December 2022.
