Will The Real Father Christmas Please Stand Up

About the Book

SUMMARY
Will The Real Father Christmas Please Stand Up

The author enjoyed several years as a professional Father Christmas in a major capital city department store. During those years, he meticulously recorded details of the best of hundreds of visits he had to the infamous Santa ‘den’. He was prompted by his employment agency to publish these records, but it has taken him 15 years to do so. Now, for the first time, he is presenting the public with a unique record of many of those intimate events in his own inimitable style and laced with some philosophy about attitudes towards Father Christmas. The book delivers nothing but true events and leads the reader through every stage of a Christmas season, but presenting them in an interesting personality format, rather than a straight diarised version. The humour, sadness, delight and despair are all here in this one true record of Santa ‘interviews’ and the reader will undoubtedly recognise themselves somewhere in the pages, whether it really is them or not.

About the Author

Author’s Autobiography Roger S. Trevor Roger was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1935, but at 15, his family moved to the Eyre Peninsula town of Port Lincoln, where he lived for most of his life, returning to Adelaide in the 1980‘s as the State’s Program Director for Australia‘s bicentennial celebrations in 1988. During his years in Port Lincoln, Roger became involved in everything active, from tennis and yachting, orienteering and going away snow skiing, to arts and amateur acting, but his forte was in planning and organising visits of celebrities, VIP’s and Naval vessels from around the world, as well as chairing a number of local organisations. This expertise brought him back to Adelaide and the Bicentenary planning, but his love of the English language and of the value of putting it down on paper no doubt prompted him to report these events and the many other documents required by his Council in great detail and probably gave him the initial motivation to keep a meticulous diary of his Santa experience. He is continuing that pleasure by writing of a fascinating life of unique activities and encounters, which he says have far from finished. He hopes he’ll stop long enough to complete his autobiography, before it’s too late. Roger married in 1961 and acknowledges his wife Patsy’s motivating presence and that of his two daughters, Roxanne and Angela, both of whom live within 20 minutes from his retirement home at Marino, on Adelaide’s southern suburb coastline.