Colin Rogers and his civil partner, Martin Kellam, are invited to spend Christmas down under with Colin’s uncle Matt on his sheep station. Colin has lost his job and worries about the airfare. But Matt offers to help with the cost, and also mentions the possibility that the pair will like Australia so much they’ll agree to emigrate. Two years earlier when Matt spent Christmas with Colin’s family in London, he’d talked about his feelings for Bruce, his foreman. However, on arrival it soon becomes obvious he hasn’t said anything to Bruce, so Colin and Martin decide to play matchmakers. Many decisions have to be made. Can Matt trust his heart? Will Australia be the new start Colin and Martin need? Or is England, despite its cool temperatures and warm beer, too comfortable and familiar to leave?

Colin and Martin's Australian Christmas

“We should manage it in a couple of days.” 


“It’s just over eleven-hundred kilometres between here and Broken Hill. Takes about thirteen hours non-stop.”


“You done it non-stop?” Martin had asked.


“Once or twice, when I was younger.”


“Oz is a big place,” Matt had yawned. “But there’s an awful lot of nothing between the various towns and cities.”


Chapter 4