Photo: suppliedAfter some very serious research and consultation at the Brighton Club on Friday evening about what my final column of the year should be about, it was unanimously agreed that running a column on Christmas Eve that wasn’t actually about Christmas would be rude. It should also be positive and, under no circumstances, intelligent. Since coming up with an overarching theme felt dangerously close to thinking, I landed on something far safer, my Top 10 Favourite Things About a Brighton Christmas. You can’t walk anywhere in Brighton without stopping to chat, which depending on the time of day becomes a coffee or a wine. Watching kids entertain themselves with music, drawing and the occasional bout of lawn-based sumo wrestling is peak Christmas.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 23, 2025 22:01 UTC