This idea of Christmas in Winter is getting out of hand. Last night was our third contrived mock-Christmas celebration this year and, even though it was good fun, we hardly need an excuse to eat a roast dinner and wear a funny paper hat. Last night was organised by our Rotary club as a social occasion but with the underlying intent of putting some cash in the pockets of the Mole Creek Hotel which has been doing it tough since the recent floods frightened the tourists away. Apparently, some 50000 tourists explore the Mole Creek Caves in a normal year but a couple of the better caverns were flooded and have been closed.
The cash our group of 50 contributed must have been welcome, but It's just a drop in the bucket, really.
At out first Yuletide celebration, back in July, we were informed that the idea of a mid-year Christmas came from the clever burghers of Katoomba and Leura in the Blue Mountains looking for a way to attract tourists when there was snow on the ground. This was back in the 1980's so it's only taken 30 years for it to become a tradition.
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