Keep seeing half-life-sized inflatable
Santa figures outside people's houses that look like they have been lynched. Thought it was some kind
of freaky joke until I realized that he is meant to be climbing up (down?) a
rope.
The Santa in the photo, though, tells a more
complicated and sorrowful tale; is prone on the ground, his arm wrapped
around both a cricket bat and an emu, his face buried in the latter. A
remaining - and Christmas-themed - memorial to cricketer Phil Hughes, after whose death last month many
Sydney-siders put out a cricket bat on their front porch, as a sign of respect.
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