HMM?
Plenty of drinks have been purchased and are now chilling down
A ham
And a few Chooks are in a Fridge
Some delights from the sea are chilling down as well
and I am constantly getting orders from the OH to CLEAN this,MOVE that,GIVE me your wallet and STOP complaining, that I suspect Christmas time has arrived
Our 3rd one here at “THE PUB”It started with this blatant rip off from J Laws.
https://pbxmastragics.com/2012/12/11/hello-world/
This will be our 367th thread starter
The Christmas theme will be up for a few days only. I can’t improve it any more but it is festive and I hope you can forgive it’s foibles and go with the flow. It is close to our original one.
On behalf of Ned ,Syd and my demanding but lovely OH, I would like to wish you,Contributors and lurkers alike a very Merry Christmas and I hope you all have a safe and Wonderful day
THE PUB 
cold cxollation and salad tonight. baked whatever the son brings tomorrow. Our Chrissy dinner will be in the evening when, hopefully, the cool change has arrived.
Than you j6p for the xmas theme.
cold collation, i mean choice of cold meats and cheese.
Puffy,
Fingers crossed for you. Evening sounds like the best plan. Meanwhile, I hope you and the dogs keep cool and well-hydrated (yes, I mean H2O).
Possibly, just possibly, my favourite traditional carol (though I wish the Beeb’s sound recordists had been able to do something about the sibilants):
that is up there near top of my list for me too, Fiona.
Now we are watching the Battersea Dogs Home Xmas Special. 🙂 hosted by Paul O’Grady.
How reindeer get high at Christmas – ability to steer remains a mystery
http://m.canberratimes.com.au/national/how-reindeer-get-high-at-christmas–ability-to-steer-remains-a-mystery-20151218-glrapb.html
Just a few left here now. Listening to the Traveling Wilburys. on vinyl.
Suitably into the Grant Burge bubbly.
Merry Christmas!
duckie
Farty Towels is one of the best comedy series ever.
Good morning and Merry Christmas Dawn Patrollers.
Woolworths and Coles cover themselves with glory as they let down on-line (and other) shoppers. Have they not heard of “allocation” and “available stock”, two of the most important terms in a sales and distribution system? And as for their response to the disappointed customers …?
http://www.smh.com.au/national/coles-and-woolworths-slammed-for-christmas-supply-shortage-20151224-gluox5.html
This action by the US has angered many in the UK.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/were-they-trumped-anger-in-britain-after-us-bars-muslim-family-from-flight-20151224-glurlz.html
Quiet achiever Daniel Andrews is setting out to restore Victoria’s socially progressive position.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/dec/23/daniel-andrews-victorias-quiet-achiever-premier-steps-boldly-into-social-reform
The price drop that is really worrying Big Oil.
http://www.theage.com.au/business/energy/the-price-drop-thats-really-worrying-big-oil-20151223-glu0qy.html
Dave Donovan writes on the responses to James Ashby’s smears and slurs.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/ashbygate-trust-members-respond-to-james-ashbys-smears-and-slurs,8524
What a disgusting thing much of private vocational training has become!
http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/how-to-sell-a-dodgy-diploma-whistleblower-speaks-out-20151222-glttm6.html
More concerning allegations from Nauru.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/12/14/nauru-refugee-strip-search_n_8808494.html?utm_hp_ref=australia
In a break from tradition Bill Shorten puts a political comment on penalty rates into his Christmas message. And there’s an Abbott family photo in the article which makes Tony look quite diminutive.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bill-shorten-makes-pledge-on-penalty-rates-in-christmas-message-20151224-glulwn.html
Alan Moir pretty well sums up the current polling position.
And here’s the best 45 Fairfax cartoons of the year.
BK
Good morning and Merry merry. Keep cool today and have a great time. Thanks for your links this morning and with very rare exception every morning.
Christmas Greetings from this old atheist to all the great folk that live in the Pub; from management to the occasional imbiber you are all bonzer cobbers.
So, may lots of good things like partridges, turtle doves, calling birds, gold rings, geese, swans, maids, ladies, pipers and drummers arrive for all of you.
NORAD’s amazing 60-year Santa tracking history
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3018332/security/norad-s-amazing-60-year-santa-tracking-history.html
Thanks for the links, BK, and Merry Christmas to you, Gravel and all Pub viewers and families. Forecast in Portland is for 31, with late afternoon rain, which might be more comfortable than most.
We will have our own miniature gathering of immediate family here this morning before going to the giant extended family Christmas Day lunch and afternoon fun at my nephew’s place.
Looking forward to it, as I hope all of you will be.
Good morning and Christmas greetings.
Lovely cool morning here, there might be some rain on the way, maximum expected today 25C. Perfect eating weather, maybe not so good if you were planning a day at the beach.
The NORAD Santa Ttracker – did you know Australia also has a similar service? For years Air Service Australia, in collaboration with NORAD, has been releasing Santa’s flightpath for Australia and providing updates via Facebook. Santa’s callsign is always ‘SLEIGHRIDER 1’. It all shuts down before Santa gets too close though, we don’t want little kids staying up too late in the hopes of catching Dthe Big Man making a delivery.
https://www.facebook.com/airservicessanta
https://newsroom.airservicesaustralia.com/releases/all-set-for-santas-present-delivery-drop-to-australia
It’s going to be 34c here today, but a lovely 23c tomorrow, so glad for that as will be cooking roast for lunch. I’ll get the 20 and 18 year old grandsons to help move the sheep to work up an appetite for the roast and home made plum pudding. 🙂
Clarke and Dawe on the “cricket”.
Channel Nine, eat your heart out!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-24/clarke-and-dawe:-live-from-the-cricket,-where-the/7052718
BK
Thank you for the links.
Those Colesworths online shoppers are dills. And what a bunch of whingers! They don’t seem to be getting much sympathy in the comments.
Anyone with even just half a brain would have booked their delivery for a few days before Christmas, just in case something went wrong. I know we are supposed to be cross about the big two letting down customers, but I thought that story was a good example of how dumb people can be. Have none of these fools every heard of a contingency plan, aka Plan B?
Sorry can’t agree. One orders, making delivery time. Bet many of these placed their orders early. It would be near impossible to get delivery date if one left it to the last moment. When one makes their order, they are or should be informed that item isn’t available. Well that is how it works when I have used their services.
There is no excuse for things such as meat and hams not showing up yesterday. especially as it would spoil many a Christmas dinner.
I though. as an item was sold, it was recorder on a stock list. The system let them down badly.
Or the system was circumvented.
Leone,
Did the pudding behave?
Good morning Pubsters. Everything is relaxed and happy. i went to the fishmongers and bought Meoldema an Alaskan Crab portion, with the legs, and SA caught King Prawns. She bought a small freezer, (about a metre high) to give us extra space.
We are watching the Carry-on movies marathon. on foxtel (yeah, i know). Those movies always make me laugh.
Fiona
So far so good. Looks OK. smells right, but it’s still sealed up in the bowl. It has to have a reheat for an hour or so before lunch, which I have to get underway soon. Then I get to turn it out and see if it worked.
Off to the Canberra Hyatt soon with family for Santa Season lunch, after bugs and prawns for dinner last night. 4YO grandson had a marvellous morning opening Santa’s and our family’s gifts. Will sleep well tonight, me thinks.
Leone,
I will keep my fingers crossed!
Colombo,
Great to see you – have a wonderful time.
Antlers everywhere today … A real Xmas Day.
My gelato got a good run at the family christmass dinner. Were a couple leftover which I gave to two nieces.
How quickly people forget. When the Otways burn, they really burn:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-25/great-ocean-road-fire-blog/7054158
Fiona
Evacuating Lorne must mean the fire is very hot and moving fast.
CTar,
That’s certainly how it looks. Glad I’m not there.
Nice and quite here. Early lunch and by 2:30 the 3 fly-ins all off for a nap.
Fiona
That area is now far more populated than it was in the last disastrous fires. I hope everyone will be safe.
CTar,
We lunched with me mum at her new residence. Much better than having to cook and clean up (mum thought I was brilliant to think of it). Pretty good food, too.
I’ve had a nap too – it is very warm here so a siesta was almost inevitable.
On a lighter note:
Fiona
[Much better than having to cook and clean up]
Minimal here. No cooking today – some seafood followed by cold turkey, ham and green salad. A bit of cheese after.
Gravel,
Yes, the increased development down there is a big worry with fires like these:
Someone observed on Twitter that if Jon Faine is on ABC Melbourne Radio on Christmas Day, things are serious.
Mathematically this holds up.
Fiona
Thanks for telling about Faine being on. We lived at Colac for 12-13 years, so it’s a bit like our back yard on fire. I know we are hundreds of klms away now, but even so…….what an awful Xmas day for all those concerned.
Gravel,
Not that there’s ever really a good time to have a fire . . .
Fiona
There is never a good time for a fire, but that area is a very popular holiday spot, and having all those extra people there takes a lot more resources. Xmas and Easter would be the two worst times.
Gravel,
Indeed. It is, of course, the visitors/tourists who have been giving the emergency authorities the most grief.
21:30 and 4YO still going strong. Where do they get the stamina and why can’t I buy some somewhere?
Fave neighs are having an xmas night party.
Surprisingly, the music is subdued.
Surprisingly, the drivers of the intruding vehicles seem to have parked with courtesy.
Surprisingly (not), fave neighs have decided (1) xmas night is an appropriate time for fireworks, and (2) laws relating to fireworks don’t apply to them. Said fireworks are being let off from their back garden.
Seriously surprisingly, I think they’ve sent their unfortunate dog on hols, so I haven’t heard any howls from that direction, at least.
Xmas dinner went down a treat, especially my roast potatoes. I am relaxing with some Golden North honey ice-cream.
Fiona
the dog has probably gone deaf
Puffy,
I doubt it.
The public interaction between the dog and the ‘humans’ of the household is minimal. She, poor animal, spends most of her days at the front fence, hoping to be able to talk with someone. Anyone.
As for the pyrotechnics, this is the first time as far as I know that we have been treated to such an up close and personal fireworks display.
Checking the regs now.
Nice to hear the kookaburras early in the morning with a a cup of coffee: