24 thoughts on “Merry Christmas!”

  1. Merry Christmas to you and Bearsy, Boadicea.

    I love the card and the carol.

    Thank you, and all the admins for setting up this site and the maintenance thereof and I appreciate the hard work involved.

  2. In the words of that famous blogger whose name escapes me for the moment, Pease Pudding be upon the both of you.

    Cheers, have a good one.

    Toc. 🙂

  5. Thank you for your seasonal greetings, Boadicea. I wish you and Bearsy a very happy Christmas, and hope you don’t get your feet wet!

    You may remember I put up a short post on truffles a while ago. Today I read that a young farmer, the president of his local Young Farmers branch in the Drome, shot a truffle thief he found in his patch of woodland. He claimed that while patrolling he found this guy armed with what looked like a gun and opened fire, with fatal results. The deceased had a criminal record and was armed with an implement for digging up truffles. All the locals have been trying to help the farmer, by hiding his gun and holding a demonstration outside the court in Valence. These knobbly little things do arouse strong passions.

  6. Weird weather, Boa; all those years I spent in Qld praying for rain! My friends on the Gold Coast Hinterland have been complaining about the rain and frequent storms. Hope it stops soon!

  8. Merry Christmas to you both.
    I amazed by the amount of rain you have been having there. I hope that all the reservoirs are filling up. A friend of mine is involved in irrigation equipment up in Toowoomba. He told me, when he was here last month, that the reservoirs there were virtually empty.

    On another subject, I was stuck by this article in the Brisbane Times. Is there any substance behind it? It sounds extraordinary.
    http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/lifestyle/your-son-is-gone-hes-with-his-adoptive-parents-20101222-1958a.html

  9. All the very best to The Mangagement! Sorry to read the elements are as intractable down under as they are here. No chance it will rain at the MCG, I suppose?

    The Chariot has been a huge success in 2010 – so please keep up the good work!

  10. Sipu

    I am astonished that your friend said last month that the reservoirs were virtually empty – I don’t know about the Toowoomba area, but it isn’t that far from Brisbane and the dams here have been virtually full for over a year, and they’ve even been letting water out of them. And that’s before this present deluge!

    Anyway – here’s the link for dam levels:

    http://seqwater.com.au/public/dam-levels

    There is indeed substance in your Brisbane Times story. I knew two women who had their children taken away in similar circumstances. One was relatively young – so I know that it was going on until the 1980s.

    Janus

    It seems probable that it will rain in Sydney!

  12. Merry Christmas B&B,

    Sorry to hear about your current climate woes, I hope it does not get in Bearsys way when he is sparking up the barbie tomorrow.

    Thanks to you both for your excellent work on the Chariot, it is very much apreciated by this small furry mammal. 🙂

  13. boadicea :

    Sipu

    I am astonished that your friend said last month that the reservoirs were virtually empty

    Perhaps he was talking about what it had been like earlier. However, I did find this page which indicates that some are still relatively empty, but getting fuller.
    http://www.toowoombarc.qld.gov.au/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=1009&tmpl=component&format=raw&Itemid=133

    I visited him in 2003. We went on a bit of a tour of the area, including a visit to a place where they had a rodeo. It was quite fun.

  16. Me again. I’m sure the management won’t mind.
    They might and they might chip ye oot
    I probably won’t be online for a few days so I’d like to use this post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Have fun.

  19. A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you both, many thanks for all the hard work you put in to make this site work as well as it does.
    OMG

  24. A very Merry Christmas a best wishes for a Prosperous New Year to both the management and the patrons hereof. I’ve been largely absent for the last few weeks while preoccupied with very local events, but will try harder in the new year.

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