Tasmanian community celebrates Christmas with home-grown display

ABC NEWS (Australia)

You've heard of carols, Christmas parades and giant trees in city squares. But one small farming community in Tasmania’s far north-west has been spreading Christmas cheer in its own way.

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00:00Who's excited for Christmas?

00:07Ready?

00:08Three, two, one.

00:11Merry Christmas!

00:14Hay bales, old farm equipment, and a dash of creativity.

00:22Rain, hail or shine, this tiny rural community celebrates its holidays,

00:29country style.

00:31The kids love getting into the festivities.

00:33It's actually quite cool.

00:35It's cool seeing all the Santa's and everyone else's decorations.

00:40Last year we did something not as great as this.

00:44So this year you've gone bigger and better?

00:47Yes.

00:48But they have to fight off the adults.

00:50We didn't get to help much.

00:52Oh.

00:53Well, my auntie and my mum and...

00:56Dad?

00:57Dad maybe.

00:58Why do the kids always have to have all the fun too?

01:01We make it fun.

01:03About five years ago, Cheryl and Terry Willey's original Christmas display

01:07delighted their neighbours.

01:09Found a Santa suit in the cupboard and the granddaughter was there

01:13so we decided that we'd fill it and sit it on the front veranda.

01:18But my husband came out and said,

01:20no, I've got a tractor, we'll put it on the tractor out the front.

01:25He took off from there.

01:26And so we just decided,

01:28oh, it was so wonderful to see the old Santa sitting up on the old tractor.

01:32Let's all put a Santa out the front and get the Christmas cheer happening

01:36and then it's just snowballed.

01:38Using whatever they had on hand,

01:40bikes, booze and even chamber pots

01:45to create a trail for visitors and townsfolk.

01:49It started out as a little bit of family fun

01:52and turned into elaborate Christmas displays like this one.

01:56These busy farmers always find time to bring their community Christmas joy,

02:00whatever the weather.

02:02Uniting a small, spread out community.

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