A gallery of Christmas postcards
Christmas cards used to baffle me somewhat, when I was a small child growing up in Australia. What was the story with the snow, let alone mysterious words like "Noël"? It took a while for me to grasp that I was part of a transplanted race still coming to terms with being a long way from its ancestral home. The "white Christmas", the songs about snow and sleighs and reindeer, the fake illuminated icicles hanging from fascia boards along the fronts of suburban houses were all part of the same thing: a settler colony far from…
