It’s altogether kooky, a Californian Christmas with the Adams family, where ‘even Santa will have a tan’.
For half the world where it glows rather than snows on Christmas Day.
Which is what it is for rock legend, the Groover from Vancouver, in his Californian home.
And don’t you know that Bryan Adams’ Christmas offering is the earworm on our radio stations this festive period.
Now does it do for you?
Bryan tells us that every day you know it’s going to shine in the Golden State and he’s never let us down in the past.
Chasing the sun
Of course, we’re all of us in the chilly northern bit of the northern hemisphere, dreaming of that.
And it has been our good fortune to find ourselves in warmer parts around this time of year.
Although, not as you would expect the Deep South of America.
Where I awoke in our coach journey through Mississippi to discover the fields in a blanket of white.
Which my Tennessean guide Heather told me was what the sharecroppers would call the snow.
Not that any of it diminished the warm welcome we received in an antibellum house.
Where we learned that the movie the Help had been filmed.
And a Caribbean Christmas too
Now we trust that our Californian chums will be indulging in their favourite pastime of hiking over the holidays.
And chilling out which is really all you can do in the warm.
And which our pals in the Caribbean have down to a fine art.
Not that we’d recommend the big red and white robes more suited to northern climes.
But which they faithfully don in a nod to our more Old World traditions.
Although, of course, as with all things in the Caribbean, and in this case Tobago it comes with a shot of rum.
An Irie and a peel of parang Soca music.
So whatever your poison or pastime the festive season is always better with a song in your heart.
