Hi Muhler, Roskilde, bertie5252003 -
You are so right about the cricket and summer in Australia bertie5252003 - I don't know how I forgot it, seeing it's been on telly all week already.
The sound of an Australian summer Roskilde is the broadcast of the cricket whether you are at home, in a pub, at the caravan park or even these days in the food court of a shopping centre.
If the cricket is on, summer is here!
The school holidays in Tasmania have been changed in recent years Muhler from a three term year to a four term year and so the children go back in early February now - a shame because the best weather days are in that month.
A lot of parents now have to work on Christmas Eve, though their companies may close at lunch that day, or early afternoon, but school breaks up earlier in December.
Private schools seem to break up and return a week or so earlier than the state government schools.
I hope CP Mary and her family don't have to settle for a flying visit to Tasmania.
The nice thing about summer is the lazy days of doing nothing very much at the beach, the shack, the caravan - or if you stay home, just in the garden.
At least in Tasmania you don't have to spend summer indoors.
I've had years of every second summer in Adelaide in South Australia.
Some days there you have the blinds drawn against the sun and sit in front of the air-conditioner watching movies. (Or go to the shopping centres which are air-conditioned.)
Thanks, Sun Lion. 
