A bush Christmas… tiny white clematis stars light up a dim and damp tree fern gully, and a Christmas bush, resplendent in all its frothy white glory seems to take pride of place on a grassy slope. Eucalyptus scent is strong in the morning and there’s that wonderful smell of summer grass that somehow conjures up memories of summers and Australian Christmases past. Ghost gums display golden and russet new growth following this year’s wet spring season, and creamy flowered dogwood blooms down below. 

The cattle find the sweetest grass and early warming sunbeams at the edge o