Daze Twenty December

Well how about this?? I have been avoiding doing this day's prompt!

Beyond avoidance. 

What should you have done this year but didn't because you were too scared, worried, unsure, busy or otherwise deterred from doing? (Bonus: Will you do it?)

If I had been asked this last year then I had a perfect answer. I had avoided sharing my worry about a rather ugly and nasty growth on my chest which turned out to be a keratoa-canthoma a very fancy name for a very ugly little sucker that grew rapidly from a pimple to an exceedingly large looking warty thing. I will spare you the photograph that I took. (I can hear the sigh of relief).  I eventually dealt with it and told people around me after the event much to their disgust as I had been losing sleep over it. All okay and all over and done with but that was last year.
I am really struggling to think of something I should have done that I didn't - how nice!
And so to ...

My favourite things section
My favourite holiday cookie.. Hmm... we don't really do holiday cookies. We kind of have some made and given out at Christmas that are shortbreads- English tradition and I do love that buttery shortbread but nothing that is typical of our family Christmas. I do love mince pies at Christmas (fruit mince) as opposed to the wondrous thing that is the Australian meat pie. Maddy used to make a great Christmas cake that was a boiled fruit cake and she didn't put icing on it like many do- the thick almond icing, marzipan- it was lovely. She also used the same recipe for the Christmas plum pudding.
I could use this opportunity to state that my favourite cookie- holiday or otherwise- is the wonderful Australian biscuit that is the Timtam! Chocolate coated with chocolate cream inside two chocolate biscuits. Yummo! I cheated- I don't have a packet of them in the house and I didn't rush out and photograph them- grabbed this photo online.

My favourite holiday song is a great question. The one that is my fall back song in my head is "Winter Wonderland" but when I was chatting to some teachers today we were talking about the song a particular teacher could use for the holiday sing along tomorrow- yep leaving it awfully late but I won't be there to suffer the event so was happily offering suggestions. I mentioned that at home in Australia we sometimes got kids singing Summer Holiday because it is the start of the summer holidays. And unlike the gifts that are given here in the northern hemisphere- scarves, beanies, snowboots, sleds- kids at home get beach balls, buckets and spades, sunhats...etc.
But I digress I think my favourite Australian holiday song is Six White Boomers. Because it is so tacky and so Australian. I do love the soooo Australian sound of Rolf Harris - the chorus is..

Six white boomers, snow white boomers
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun
Six white boomers, snow white boomers
.. On his Aus-tra-lian run

Here's a link to the lyrics. I think it is perhaps the inner child in me or the absolute dag that I am emerging!