Preparing for a Southern Hemisphere Christmas!

As the pressure starts to come from all sides this Christmas, it is important to take a step back and loosen your load, if only for a few days.

I was discussing the subject of Christmas Holidays with a family member who also happens to be a great friend, and it seems a good time to open that discussion up for our readers’ enlightenment.

Here in New Zealand, as in all southern hemisphere countries, christmas arrives in the summer, and is when we have our main holiday season. Schools generally finish up for the year early in December and reopen again at the beginning of February.

Many businesses close-down or run on skeleton-staff for a couple of weeks from a few days before christmas to around the 10th of January or thereabouts. Therefore it can be a tricky time to contact businesses during this time – or at least, you may not get a rapid reply to any queries.

So keep this in mind when dealing with companies in the southern hemisphere. Try to finalise any dealings before 20 Decemberand unless you have made specific arrangements, don’t expect many companies to be replying to most queries until around 10 January. Of course, the A1LifeStore team NEVER takes a break, so your emails will still be answered quickly.

Upcoming Features:

Keep an eye out for our special Christmas recipes over the next week and the reintroduction of our pet section. This section was sadly missed and has taken longer than expected to be revamped but is almost ready to be rolled out so stay tuned.