Christmas in ’Straya

Christmas in ’Straya
" said a wizened local, "they’ve done it." Spying all this on social media, residents of a nearby village thought, "Why not us, too?"
And away they went, turning some of their hamlet into a festive Yuletide forest. that By gum,
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