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We love to share Australian Christmas cards to our overseas relations and friends like these!
They enjoy them being so different, I am glad to hear it puts a smile on their dial!!
Remembering as a child all those years ago!
Does anyone remember AA Milne?
They are delightful books and when hubby was approaching 60 the publishers put out a book called Now we are 60! I had to get it for him! LOL
These books still are in my mind’s eye still and we were chatting away a few days ago about them and voicing our favourites! LOL
The King’s Breakfast AA Milne
The King asked
The Queen, and
The Queen asked
The Dairymaid:
“Could we have some butter for
The Royal slice of bread?”
The Queen asked the Dairymaid,
The Dairymaid
Said, “Certainly,
I’ll go and tell the cow
Now
Before she goes to bed.”The Dairymaid
She curtsied,
And went and told
The Alderney:
“Don’t forget the butter for
The Royal slice of bread.”
The Alderney
Said sleepily:
“You’d better tell
His Majesty
That many people nowadays
Like marmalade
Instead.”The Dairymaid
Said, “Fancy!”
And went to
Her Majesty.
She curtsied to the Queen, and
She turned a little red:
“Excuse me,
Your Majesty,
For taking of
The liberty,
But marmalade is tasty, if
It’s very
Thickly
Spread.”The Queen said
“Oh!:
And went to
His Majesty:
“Talking of the butter for
The royal slice of bread,
Many people
Think that
Marmalade
Is nicer.
Would you like to try a little
Marmalade
Instead?”The King said,
“Bother!”
And then he said,
“Oh, deary me!”
The King sobbed, “Oh, deary me!”
And went back to bed.
“Nobody,”
He whimpered,
“Could call me
A fussy man;
I only want
A little bit
Of butter for
My bread!”The Queen said,
“There, there!”
And went to
The Dairymaid.
The Dairymaid
Said, “There, there!”
And went to the shed.
The cow said,
“There, there!
I didn’t really
Mean it;
Here’s milk for his porringer,
And butter for his bread.”The Queen took
The butter
And brought it to
His Majesty;
The King said,
“Butter, eh?”
And bounced out of bed.
“Nobody,” he said,
As he kissed her
Tenderly,
“Nobody,” he said,
As he slid down the banisters,
“Nobody,
My darling,
Could call me
A fussy man –BUT
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread!”Note: The Alderney is a breed of cow, renowned for the quality of butter and quantity of milk it produces. A 28 minute film adaptation of this poem, directed by Wendy Toye in collaboration with Ronald Searle, was released in 1963.
Organised mum’s Christmas napkin trick will bring a touch of style to your dining table – and it takes just seconds
An Aussie mum-of-two popular for sharing home hacks online has revealed a napkin trick that will bring style to the table this Christmas.
Omicron ‘IS spreading in Sydney’: Fears virus is in the community as schoolboy who hasn’t been overseas catches the mutant strain
NSW Health is concerned the state’s ninth Omicron COVID-19 infection ‘may have been acquired in the community’. The latest case, a student at Regents Park Christian School, has not been overseas and has no links to people who have travelled abroad. Two more students are being investigated over suspicions they could be infected with the variant, health minister Brad Hazzard said on Friday.
Hola I heard that you have a birthday today!
Hope you have had a wonderful day with your friends and family!
So hope the happiness lingers all through to your next birthday when it comes back to wish you much more happiness!
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 mysteriously vanished in 2014 and the wreckage has never been found. But an aerospace engineer claims he has pinpointed the spot using a revolutionary technology.
The location is in the same area where University of Western Australia head of oceanography Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi also claims the plane rests.
He employed a new technology called weak signal propagation, originally developed for digital radio, which he describes as a ‘bunch of tripwires that work in every direction over the horizon to the other side of the globe’.
As planes fly through these ‘tripwires’ the signal is disrupted.
He tested this method using several ‘blind’ flights that were not tracked in the usual way and claims the data accurately tracked the flight paths.
MH370 also had a satellite communications system using British Inmarsat satellites that tracked the location of the plane every hour.
Mr Godfrey said the two technologies, when used together, can provide ‘a good result’ in tracking a plane.
‘Together the two systems can be used to detect, identify and localise MH370 during its flight path into the Southern Indian Ocean,’ he said.
He claims the plane would be located on or near the last satellite ping, which can be backed up and refined by the weak signal propagation data.
According to his report, the aircraft crashed about a minute after the final satellite link-up at 8.19am over the Indian Ocean and the plane rests at the base of Broken Ridge – an oceanic plateau in an area filled with ravines and an underwater volcano.
This location 33.177°S 95.300°E was not in the original search area defined by the Australian Transport Seafety Bureau in 2015.
But it is at the northern part of the 2016 extended 120,000sq km search area.
A search in 2018 by the US run Ocean Infinity missed the location by just 28km.
A graphic showing the flight path of the plane, and where it is thought to have disappeared
Researchers at Cardiff University have analysed the data that sound recorders (station HA01 and HA08) picked up on the night of the crash and suggested two new possible crash routes – one towards the west of Australia (route one) and one towards Madagascar (route two)
Fears new Covid super-variant Omicron is ALREADY in Australia after a positive case returned from South Africa as authorities race to identify the strain and shut borders to infected countries
Authorities are nervously waiting for tests results to determine if a Covid-19 case in the Northern Territory who recently returned from South Africa has the high-contagious and vaccine-resilient Omicron strain. The case is one 20 people who were repatriated from South Africa to Australia last week. Health Minister Greg Hunt on Saturday announced Australia would be joining Europe and the US in closing its borders to nine southern African countries in an attempt to stop the new variant from entering the country. Chief medical officer Paul Kelly said authorities were also in the process of tracking down about 100 Australians who recently arrived from the blacklisted countries and will now need to go into quarantine for two weeks. The new rules include banning non-Australian travellers from the regions, enforcing supervised quarantine for returned passengers and suspending all flights from the nine countries for two weeks.
I would prefer to stay put thanks very much, I don’t want to move out of this state.
Where CAN you go in Europe? Covid cases may be on the increase, but fully vaccinated Britons are welcome across the Continent – here’s our update…
There is concern about the potential impact of the new Covid variant discovered in South Africa. But travel is ‘on’ to all countries in Europe – except Austria…
My toxic love for Peter O’Toole, the Demon of Drink: SIAN PHILLIPS reveals how she was romanced by the star and fell victim to his alcoholic rages and brutal sexism
She is one of Britain’s most brilliant actresses who is still, aged 88, winning rave reviews for her latest West End role. Now, in the first extract from our exclusive serialisation of her reissued and updated memoirs, Dame Sian Phillips (pictured with Peter O’Toole in 1964) reveals how she fell helplessly in love with the charismatic Peter O’Toole (top left) – and how their marriage began to be corroded by his drinking and obsessive sexual jealousy . . . One night, in the early hours, I was woken by a noise coming from the ground-floor window of my front room in Notting Hill. I got out of bed without putting on the light. Improbably, there was a face pressed to the glass and a tall ?gure perilously straddling the gap between the window and the steps to the front door. I raised the sash slowly and two hands plunged in to seize the window frame. Then, with a heave, two long, slim feet swung down to the ?oor, and over 6ft of Peter O’Toole sketched a little bow.
Kayla Mailer, now 32, from Portland, Oregon, went to see her doctor when the ‘super-cute’ freckle on her cheek started changing color and shape. She was devastated to learn it was cancer. Kayla, who received the diagnosis when she was 27-years-old, said she would have died from the ‘highly aggressive’ form of melanoma if she hadn’t had it removed. She’s now urging people to make sure they wear sunscreen, to help protect themselves.
