Wombats and friend

The wombats are back and are getting ready for Christmas, as you can see! My friend Nola gave me the little feller on the right, and the other two were souvenirs of a trip to a country town at the end of last year. Their friend at the back was a momento of our trip to Canada in October 2009.....what could be more Canadian than a beaver playing hockey? It was bought at one of those wondrous places that had several Christmas trees each decorated in different themes, one was entirely beavers playing winter sports, skating, skiing, sledding, hockey. It was such fun, and something that isn't done so much in Australia - we recycle the same decorations year in and year out, we don't go in much for theme trees. If you were the theme type you wouldn't want to use the same decorations for two years in a row, would you, because people would remember. Oh, they would say, she used those decorations last year. Or the year before. And we can't have that, can we?

Much too much stress for my brain.

Some of the Christmas shopping is done, tomorrow we must brave the supermarket for the final food shop. Australians seem to have a siege mentality when it comes to public holidays, and as shops will be closed for three or four days panic mode sets in, the average family stocks up with enough food to serve an army for a month, let alone just themselves for a few days. We will be feeding four people, I wonder if we will have enough food?

We have even bought the cats a present, a new scratching post. Bianca is investigating it but so far it hasn't seen a kitty claw. No doubt they will get the idea soon, their old one is almost past its use-by date.

A few days ago we had a visitor, a green frog came inside.....erk.....I quite like fur, and I am happy enough with feathers and fins, but nothing else. It must have been sitting on the door frame and sidled in when Kevin went outside for a few minutes, fortunately it was easily persuaded to leave. We have at least two in the garden, they sing back and forth in chorus.

Our very nice neighbours have sold their house and will be moving to a small farm outside town, wonder what the new neighbours will be like? So far they have all been much nicer folk than we had in Sydney.

We are hearing about the snow storms and bad weather which is affecting plane travel in Europe. While I feel sorry for those who have had their Christmas plans disrupted, and who have had to spend a day or two or three waiting in an airport, there's nothing we can do about weather. It is disappointing if one has been looking forward to visiting friends or family, or visiting another country for a different Christmas experience, but if the planes cannot fly then they cannot fly, and all the moaning in the world will not get them airborne.

"Naming the child.

It becomes an all-important matter to the parents, what name they shall give to the newly-born child, and as this is a matter which may also concern the latter at some future day, it becomes an object of solicitude, until a suitable name is settled upon."

Now I shall endeavour to use my time constructively, and sew for a little while.

Enjoy your days!