Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to separate bathrooms. We would like to
Speaker 1: acknowledge the Gadigal people of the ear Or nation, the
Speaker 1: traditional custodians of this land, and pay our respects to
Speaker 1: the elders, both past and present. A big Christmas welcome
Speaker 1: and hello from me cam Dado and Ali Dado.
Speaker 2: Indeed, happy holidays to everyone listening.
Speaker 3: Happy Halidays. It's free American of you well.
Speaker 2: Because it encompasses everyone, because not everyone celebrates Christmas, correct,
Speaker 2: but everyone is usually on holidays this time of year.
Speaker 3: Are you feeling light?
Speaker 2: Yes? I am. I am actually the year that was.
Speaker 2: I love this time of year. I really love this.
Speaker 1: What do you love about this time of year?
Speaker 3: Honey?
Speaker 2: I mean it's when things just slow down and stop
Speaker 2: and there's nothing to do but just be with family
Speaker 2: and be together and go for a swim and have
Speaker 2: a hamburger. And I don't know. And I love present giving.
Speaker 2: I love I've always loved present giving and I love it.
Speaker 1: Can I say when we first met and you used
Speaker 1: to give.
Speaker 4: Me too many gifts? You give me so many gifts,
Speaker 4: and I'd have one sitting there for you, and I'd
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, he's giving me thirteen gifts and I've
Speaker 4: just got this one, and then next year I'd find three.
Speaker 1: Or four and then you give me twelve gifts.
Speaker 2: But I never mind it. I know you.
Speaker 1: Would say that give but I that, so I would
Speaker 1: buy it. Sometimes I'd just buy shit, you know, by
Speaker 1: GAK and it just to fill up.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you would buy things that you wanted.
Speaker 3: I know that happens.
Speaker 1: Well that's where it mostly ended up. I'd give you
Speaker 1: a couple of things that you I knew you really wanted,
Speaker 1: but then other things were like, oh, we could have this,
Speaker 1: and then it's something I could.
Speaker 2: Have that year me, the chainsaw was disappointing, I have.
Speaker 1: To say that, especially at six am. What about the
Speaker 1: weed whaker?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Well, this this Christmas, it will be a
Speaker 2: little different for us because we will be without our
Speaker 2: gorgeous son and his boyfriend. This is the first time
Speaker 2: ever without Riv. But we do have Lotus back, so
Speaker 2: we've kind of we've swapped them out.
Speaker 3: But it is it is Miles going to be with us.
Speaker 1: Miles is Lotus's boyfriend. Yeah, so just be Lolo.
Speaker 2: It'll just be Lola and boats. Yeah, and boats for
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 3: She'll duck off with her mates.
Speaker 2: Oh maybe not. And I'm going to see if we
Speaker 2: can keep her around for a bit. But we've been
Speaker 2: very lucky to have River and lock You for all
Speaker 2: these times. And Lock's mum and dad have not had
Speaker 2: the boys, so it's bad split it up so River
Speaker 2: will not have the traditions that we normally have for
Speaker 2: our Christmas Day, which so Ol.
Speaker 1: Made stockings for each of us, these fun stockings that
Speaker 1: get filled up by Sanna by Sana the night before,
Speaker 1: even to the point, so we had one of.
Speaker 3: The houses in the States, we had had a big mantlepiece.
Speaker 1: And so OL's gone and bought these hooks that sat
Speaker 1: on top of the mantelpiece, these brass things that were
Speaker 1: like very American, and then the then the stockings hung
Speaker 1: off the hooks. But because she's such a gift giver,
Speaker 1: the hooks became redundant because the stockings were so heavy
Speaker 1: that they fell off the.
Speaker 2: Mantle every time.
Speaker 1: So the hooks get put out, but the mantle, but
Speaker 1: the stockings end up on the floor and spilling with gifts.
Speaker 2: I think that's the difference. I don't know. I know
Speaker 2: you grew up with sleeping, no pillow.
Speaker 1: Case, pillow cases at the foot of the bed.
Speaker 2: I never had a pillowcase stocking ever. Growing up. It
Speaker 2: was just Christmas under the Christmas presence under the tree.
Speaker 2: Is stockings more of an American.
Speaker 1: Thing, I believe, So, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think it is.
Speaker 1: I would say, so. Yeah. The pillowcases. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that was a daddo thing, but they were Christmas
Speaker 1: pillowcases that went at.
Speaker 2: The end of the bed.
Speaker 1: Now, the thing was that Mum and Dad used to do,
Speaker 1: used to say to us was, uh, here's the pillow case.
Speaker 1: We'll put the pillowcase at the end of the bed.
Speaker 3: And so you're so excited, yeah, God, because you knew
Speaker 3: that pillowcase was going to be filled in the morning
Speaker 3: with stuff, you know, like Batman and Robin.
Speaker 1: Doles or whatever it was for us.
Speaker 3: But Dad said, if you open your if you can
Speaker 3: hear Santa, and you open and you look at him,
Speaker 3: all the presents go on. So we would go.
Speaker 2: To bed, take your eyes shut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you hear this.
Speaker 5: To hear this coming in and suddenly this down sort
Speaker 5: of rustling, and you could hear stuff being put into
Speaker 5: the thing. I'd be lying that hard to be pounding away,
Speaker 5: face be to the pillow, daring to.
Speaker 2: Look nothing like a strange man entering your bedroom in
Speaker 2: the middle.
Speaker 3: Of the night, bally wearing a red suit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean our kids used to talk about.
Speaker 2: I mean they still kind of do that. The stockings
Speaker 2: are often their favorite part because it's just full of
Speaker 2: like we put all sorts of crap in there.
Speaker 3: They get a fuel card in there.
Speaker 1: Now Sander knows what they're.
Speaker 2: Doing with Santa is smart. Sanders have to change as
Speaker 2: they've grown up with the ideas. But yeah, they love, love,
Speaker 2: love love the stockings. And then we always start the
Speaker 2: day with a people would know it Big Mama's breakfast.
Speaker 2: That's been a tradition, which is a huge breakfast which
Speaker 2: I love to do.
Speaker 1: Which everyone really gets involved in creating. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: bacon and eggs and pancakes, cakes, fresh fruit, all that
Speaker 1: summer fruit, although in winter it was the winter fruit,
Speaker 1: wasn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the big pots of tea with the cozy warm
Speaker 2: mos on it.
Speaker 1: And I this lot bread toast and.
Speaker 2: While the presents are just twinkling under there under the
Speaker 2: tree awaiting us. Well, actually we do the stockings as soon.
Speaker 1: As we Yeah, the stockings get done when we wake
Speaker 1: it done.
Speaker 3: But then we have and then we big Mama's.
Speaker 1: Breakfast and then it's off to the event and the
Speaker 1: turkey gets put in the oven.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And that's been a big difference in the sense
Speaker 2: of America to Sydney, hasn't it That we brought the
Speaker 2: turkey in to our family Christmases now where so we've
Speaker 2: got that combo of like my sister brings the oysters,
Speaker 2: the prawns, and maybe the barbecue octopus, and we still
Speaker 2: do the turkey, the roast, potatoes, the veggies.
Speaker 4: I love the challenge of the turkey.
Speaker 2: You are so good at the turkey, thanks, honey.
Speaker 1: It's a four day process. The turkey happens well by
Speaker 1: the turkey defrosted and then it's got to be dry
Speaker 1: brined for four days sitting upside down in the fridge,
Speaker 1: so all the moisture runs to the breast, I know.
Speaker 3: And then and then it's.
Speaker 2: Then, mum, someone's got to make the gravy. As they say,
Speaker 2: I'm going to make the gravy. My mom's pretty darn
Speaker 2: good at it.
Speaker 3: She's really good at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, anyway, it's it's it's upon us. The turkey's
Speaker 2: already actually in the in the process of the.
Speaker 1: Brining it is, I know, and it will be coming
Speaker 1: out tomorrow of that and out of the plastic bag
Speaker 1: and the lemmon And that's what you're doing.
Speaker 2: A stopping my mouth's watering. Anyway, whatever you choose to
Speaker 2: do for this time of year, may it be wonderful.
Speaker 2: Maybe it may be joyful, peaceful and full of kindness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, Christmas is a special time and we
Speaker 1: hope that you get to wrap your arms around the
Speaker 1: ones you love and holding close.
Speaker 2: Be safe, Happy holidays everyone, Merry Christmas,