Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, so I thought I’d share my family traditions for this time of year. When I was a kid growing up my parents had two different businesses and worked 363 days of the year. The only days they didn’t work were Christmas Day and Easter Sunday. So we had our special Christmas…
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Aussie Christmas carols
The other day I posted about my love of Christmas carols. Thanks to one of the comments left on that post, I realised I’ve never posted about our Aussie Christmas carols. Australia has some Christmas carols which are our own, plus there are a couple of traditional carols we’ve reworded to make a little more…
Shaun the sheep (slug)
I know slugs aren’t usually what you think of when you think cute, but have you seen the Shaun the Sheep (or Leaf Sheep) slug? About the size of a grain of rice, this slug (Costasiella kuroshimae) is quite fascinating because it uses photosynthesis, retaining the chloroplasts from the algae they eat in a process…
If money no object I would…
In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. What would you be doing if money was no object?Hands down, buying the house next door. We live on a slope so the house next door (a rental) has a chimney very close to our lounge room windows due to their…
At the movies: “2020” (a review)
For over 25 years, film critics David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz presented At The Movies, discussing films opening in theatres that week. This week they were asked to critique the world’s least-loved year… for your amusement, here’s a review of 2020. I think 2020 is totally deserved of a rotten tomato. What do you think?