Hobart Christmas Day, Santa Surprises and a Feast at Wrest Point Casino
Christmas Day in Hobart, featuring Santa, upmarket gifts, and a sumptuous buffet at Hobart’s Wrest Point casino
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The solstice is upon us
Today we in Australia will experience the summer solstice – specifically, Saturday, 21 Dec 2024, 7:20 pm (approx) in Brisbane. It will be the longest day, with daylight for 13 hours and 41 minutes. At round about the same time, Europe will be enduring the winter solstice. London’s daylight hours will be 7 hours 49 minutes….
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Seasons’ Greetings
Wishing everyone a safe, peaceful, joyous Yule however you choose to celebrate. See you all in the New Year.
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Season’s Greetings
Every year, around 21st June the Northern Hemisphere hands over the sun for us to look after until the time comes to give it back. That’s around 22nd December. Here it is, Northern Hemisphere. The Yule angel has looked after it very well. Enjoy your holy day (or holiday), however you celebrate. And if you’d…
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T’was a week before Christmas
There’s always a horror story some time around Christmas – plane crashes, strikes and the like. But nothing quite so awful as the events in Devonport, Tasmania, where five kids attending an end-of-school windup party died in a freak accident, others are in hospital, some in critical danger. They were in a jumping castle which…
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It’s the Day After Christmas 2020
The end of 2020, the Year of the Rat, is finally in sight. It has been a difficult year, but that’s for another post. Right now, Pete and I are digesting an excellent Christmas dinner for two, cooked by us. We had intended to go on a little holiday this year, driving down to Adelaide…
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Season’s Greetings
It’s that time of year again – the frenetic holiday season where everybody runs around like a cut snake to celebrate… something. It’s no coincidence (as I’m sure you all know) that all the major religions have a festival that pretty well coincides with the Northern Hemisphere’s Winter Solstice. Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Saturnalia, Sinter Klaas,…
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Celebrate your solstice
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The planet has reached the end of its eliptical course around the sun and down here in the temperate south the days will begin to shorten. It means we look forward to the eventual end of searing summer temperatures, cyclones, and humidity. But it’s not a time we…
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Christmas in the Darling Downs
We usually stay home for Christmas. Prawns on the barbie, a nibble of smoked salmon, dips ‘n chips and a glass of wine or three over a game of Scrabble suits me just fine. But this year we decided to go away so somebody else could do the food preparation and the washing up. We…
