Happy Christmas Decorating your homes!

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!

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. 

Christmas 2021 Events | The Salvation Army Australia

Christmas Lunch in the Park | Mission Australia

Some areas that help to give a few a very happy Christmas.

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. 

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.

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!!

Getting back to the Thread of my health issues!

The reading situation is gradually getting better, but it all depends on how much sleep I have had, these mornings I read a paragraph of words and it takes me about half the time it used to to or three months ago!   But it has certainly left my love of dreading rather flat.   The times I used to waltz through the words I am now plodding along mores the pity.   It is just something that has to be done slowly I realize. For those that are reading this Thread and have had a stroke I hope you are plodding along too, some days are better than others aren't they?      I find peace and quiet is also another area of life that I enjoy more!     

I have been watching The Dog House;  but am starting to lose interest in that programme due to the sound that is always having issues with music, I feel like writing to the producers and asking them to cut so called music out, it is not good when you try to listen to the speaking of the people.   The difference in the British Dog House and the Australian is becoming apparent as the Australian programme seems to want more music and chatter of the girls which is annoying.

Of late I have noticed so many lovely ladies wearing their hair with no chemicals and the natural grey has been allowed to shine through!

Here are a few photos of these hairstyles in the natural colours.

Australian Ladies Wearing Their Hair Natural Grey Photos - Bing News

ladies hairstyles in natural grey photos - Bing images

50 Women Who Ditched Hair Dye And Look Beyond Awesome | Bored Panda

Glenshee, Scotland

Ski resorts are about to reopen after a virtual shutdown last year because of Covid.  Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Mahfouz bin Mahfouz with Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall after receiving his CBE at Buckingham Palace in 2016

Scotland Yard has demanded to see dozens of emails between Prince Charles’ aides as they fixed a royal CBE honour for Saudi billionaire Mahfouz in exchange for a 1.5 million pound donation. New evidence shows Charles sent private thank you gift and letter to him after meeting him in England, Scotland and Saudi Arabia..

CBE is the highest ranking Order of the British Empire award, followed by OBE and then MBE

A train was knocked off its own wheels during Kentucky tornado

Reigning Champion Magnus Carlsen has officially retained his world title after defeating Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi.  On 26 April 2004, Carlsen became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years.