Last Friday the boys and I braved the infamous Borgnis St (Davidson) Christmas lights again this year. Dunc and Iona stayed home while we set off at 8.30pm having waited for it to be dark enough. The boys' eyes popped out on stalks when we arrived - partly because of the array of lights and partly because of the queue of Mr Whippy vans parked along the street! When they asked if I would buy ice-creams with sprinkles, chocolate sauce and flakes (fully expecting me to say 'no' as it was so close to bedtime) they nearly fell over when I said "Yeah - whatever you want!" So armed with huge ice creams they proceeded to touch and investigate every single Santa, snowman, reindeer on display. There were heaps of small people in pyjamas similarly stuffing down a good old sugar rush before bedtime!
One family were outside their house happy to talk about how it all started. Apparently 12 years ago two couples had decided to try and out- do each other with their Christmas lights and it had a knock-on effect with the rest of the street. A few years later people started putting cash into their letter boxes as a way of saying 'thank you'. So four years ago it was agreed that they would officially collect money for Bear Cottage in Manly (a residential holiday house for sick kids and their families) and now you can find fluoro-jacketed rotary club volunteers collecting money every night in Borgnis St for a month over the Christmas period. A couple of houses choose not to be involved but most of them have got into the spirit of it all. One house even had a full inflatable Nativity scene, complete with a blow-up baby Jesus which Arthur instinctively bent down and kissed! Great stuff. I love Christmas!!
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