Sunburn is a traditional Christmas colour....

Christmas day has come and gone and in traditional Australian manner we spent part of it on the beach. We went to Bribie Island with cousin Scott and Kitty and alternatively sat around munching on food and jumping about in the surf. Despite liberally applying sunscreen a couple of times throughout the day we both managed to get a good dose of sunburn to enjoy Boxing Day with. I knew it was going to happen eventually and I suppose we did quite well lasting 6 months before having a lapse and swapping our aple skin for a lovely lobster red shade. I'm guessing all you folks back home managed to avoid a similar fate unless you got a dose of snowburn (did anyone get snow chirstmas day?), or drove around with your head out the window and got windburn.

Due to our respective burns we've been trying to stay indoors the last couple of days to avoid further hurt. The Christmas TV over here is pretty dire but luckily for me the Boxing Day Test is being televised live so my days have been taken care of.

Unfortunatly I'm working tonight where I'll get to serve dodgy pints to unsuspecting customers. Amazingly Tetleys and Boddingtons Bitter is a quite rare in Brisbane and as such expensive (three pound a pint) despite the fact that it comes out looking like a pint of cold tea (reminiscent of bitter when you go down South). Looks like I'll have to wait until I return back North for a decent drink.

Enjoy the New Year everyone.