Christmas is coming? Really?🎅🎁🎄🎆🎉🎈🎅

       I can't believe it's the fourth of December already. That means twenty days until Christmas...I know it's different here, it's a hot country and not what we, from the Northern Hemisphere expect for Christmas time. Yet, a hot country is not that unusual for me. I have, after all, spent many years in both Australia and New Zealand. So Christmas is definitely cropping up during Summer time there. It's just that in South America, especially in this small place in Brasil, it seems even more unusual, or unlikely. It just doesn't feel like Christmas should, nor look like Christmas should.🎅

         One good thing here, is that Christmas does not start before we have had Halloween, or Guy Fawkes night. As it always does in Great Britain, or......where I lived in, England. Well, let's be clear, they don't even have a celebration for catching Guy Fawkes here. Catching out Guy and those involved in the famous gunpowder plot, before he was able to blow up Parliament. Of course not, that was British politics, not South American. Halloween here, I wrote about was great. Nothing pushing its way in long before it was due. No, it was purely Halloween celebrated, definitely no sign of Christmas decoration about then. I tell you, it's actually quite wonderful,  not to have that big money making machine shoved down your throat for the best part of three months. The magazines, TVs and the rest. The decorations, the few there are here, went up in December. RESULT!🎄

          Of course, as in the Antipodese, the usual decor are lights on a fir tree, Santa in a red coat, plus various depictions of Santa and all his merry band of reindeer, sleigh, bells, elves...whatever. Copied exactly as in England, America, Holland and various other countries. Strange isn't it, Santa is always fat and cold, wrapped in fur trimmed red coat......well, jolly as well I suppose. Let's not run him down. Maybe because of the lack of advertising, shop displays and films depicting Christmas, there is just not the same build up....the same excitement. Its actually good not to have the kids all stirred up with a big list of wants. With a bit of luck, it may pass without the usual crazy expenditure. It's long past time that someone put a stop to large,  expensive presents. It's really all gone completely mad during the past twenty or so years. With parents spending hundreds of pounds on children. Even if they can't afford it, they believe they must get it debt to do it. It's necessary......why?....Crazyyyyyy......🎅

          Now, how can that be enjoyable? Worried about where the money is coming from, or how it can be paid back after the event. I can understand thinking you must get into some debt for covering expenses in a business, or illness, family emergency, that kind of thing. But for buying children presents they were brainwashed into wanting. No, I just don't see it. I've heard very little whinging about 'I wants' those, I stress from children who have spent Christmas in England for many years. Indoctrinated, that's for sure. Let's hope they will align themselves with their peers who don't expect to need so much here.🎁

        In the meantime, I, for one am going to enjoy a last minute Christmas, without the dragging on for months of all the build up. Then I shall look forward to a cruisier Christmas with friends and family. I'm not a Religious person, but I shall say my own thanks to the Universe for all the good things of this year. Then send good wishes to all, as I enjoy relaxion, laughter and nice food with loved ones. May you all enjoy many blessings this year and next.🎈