QUESTIONS

Do you enjoy skiing or ice skating or if it’s warm where you are, hiking or enjoying outdoor sports?

I have never tried either skiing or ice skating. I was terrible at roller skating as child so would probably have fallen over and broken something if I’d tried. I don’t enjoy sport of any kind. Hiking, well I like walking but I wouldn’t want to do the Overland track or anything even mildly dangerous.

Do you give to charities or homeless that you might encounter, during this time of year, more than you do otherwise?

Yes I do. If I had more to give I’d do it all year round and I don’t confine my giving to the Christmas season but I do try and make more of an effort at this time of year. I think that as I am expecting to have a nice meal and a gift on Christmas day I should spare a thought for those who will have neither.

What is the most enjoyable activity you engage in during December?  Is it a tradition for you and your family?

Naomi and I both enjoy Christmas traditions like putting up decorations and buying Christmas presents for our pets. We often try to keep our gifts to each other a surprise. It’s part of the fun of opening the gift not to know what’s in there. Of course Christmas Day lunch is also a tradition. Roast lamb, baked potatoes and lots of veggies followed by Christmas pudding.

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What changes will C-19 bring to your festive celebrations this year?  

To be honest most of the changes to my Christmas celebrations were brought on by moving not Covid. Other years I’d have been going to lunch or dinner with friends in the weeks before Christmas, maybe going to the Christmas Pageant in Hobart and our local one in Geeveston. Of course most places are not having a parade this year, there isn’t one in Wynyard either so that’s a change.

GRATITUDE SECTION (Optional of course):

Please share a good will wish for the world!

My wish for all the world is that by this time next year we’ll have seen the back of Covid, and that we will have learned something from what has happened and take care of our poor, sick and elderly people a bit better in future.