Dear Roger Rabbits,

I have been entertained by your 'rabbitings' for a while now. As a stay-at-home mother, a quick flick through the newspaper is often all I have time for, but your editorial deserves my concentration.

On behalf of at least one other Christian, I appreciate your willingness to step into the firing line over the Merry Season debate.

In reality, I wonder how Dame Susan would snuff out Christmas? Maybe microchip us all then push the exterminate button when we fail to comply?

I apologise to all who find Christmas offensive, but a tradition that has been around since a long time ago won't die down before the next policy review on the issue at the Auckland Regional Migrants Services centre.

They could provide brochures on Kiwi traditions to immigrants instead, and just accept that unless it's a matter of legality, we'll just keep on calling Christmas whatever name we see fit. And doing Christmas things.

But on a diffrent note- can anyone explain why exactly changing our national flag is going to improve life in general for the average New Zealander?

People are dying from famine, war, disease, abuse and needing new countries to live in, so why on earth are we spending millions of dollars on something that a lot of people don't care at all about?

Just leave the flag and allocate the money towards a cause like giving more of the refugees homes and helping them settle into our country.

It really troubles me when people in high positions are so far removed from the realities of life for many of the public.

The decisions they make can be so out of touch with the rest of us, it may be time for them to lose their mega-salaries and get back to basics for a while.

Merry Christmas and all the glad tidings anyone wants at no cost, along with free love to everyone.

Esther Viljoen.