(courtesy Pan Macmillan) Every year I read a lot of Christmas rom-coms and every year I’m mostly glad I did. There’s something comforting about reading about people’s lives taking a definitive turn for the better, especially when everything says there is no real hope of any kind of meaningful redemption, Continue Reading
Christmas in July 2025
Songs, songs and more songs #125: Classic festive songs to bring joy to Christmas in July
(via Shutterstock) I love music with unreserved devotion but especially at Christmas, and of course, given the timing of the post, Christmas in July which in Australia offers up the chilly accompaniment to the season that December manifestly does not. There’s something about the warmth and cosiness of the characteristically Continue Reading
Festive book read: A Special Cornish Christmas by Phillipa Ashley
(Harper Collins Publishers Australia) If ever there’s a time for redemption, it has to be Christmas, right? Not simply because the entire festival is centred around that idea in its Biblical roots; beyond that, it’s developed into a time of year when the world is not as moored to its Continue Reading
During Christmas in July, I decorated my tree with 5 new pop culture ornaments
(via Shutterstock) Somewhere around five years ago, with Christmas in July gathering in popularity all the time, I decided that I would use the white tree originally bought to display Easter ornaments, to display some Christmas ornaments during the cold winter months in Australia. The wins were many – we Continue Reading
This Christmas in July … I read Confessions of a Christmasaholic by Joss Wood
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Christmas romantic comedies aren’t generally the time of stories to break the genre mold. And that’s perfectly okay because what you want, I would in fact argue, you need, from these types of tales is that everything that is broken can be fixed, that the Continue Reading