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This is a photo of our very first Christmas in Merewether Australia (100 km North of Sydney).

Antien's mother (my mother in law, Dorry) had given us a metal Christmas tree frame which you could easily take apart and take with you everywhere. We used it for many years in Australia.

In Merewether (1966) we erected and decorated this tree frame for the first time, put the candles in and then went shopping.
Upon our return all the candles had bent double (in inverted U shapes), partially melted in the summer heat. So that was a useful lesson learnt : in Australia put the candles in the tree only at the last moment, which we did from then on.