Boxing Day - Australian Style

 While most of our readership is in the norther hemisphere, let's not forget the readership in Australia, New Zealand etc, who have to forego the joys of snow, log fires and cold.

Here we have Branda Schlott, a trainee sewage farm operator, enjoying her Boxing Day on the beach just outside Woolongawulla.  You look marvelous, honey.

Bonus - On this date, in 1943, the German battleship Scharnhorst was sunk.

Merry Christmas Y'All

 

May you receive all sorts of shyte, and the batteries to go in them.

Chrimbo Anticipation

 

It's the Eve of Christmas/

Time to refresh the water on the Brussel Sprout boiling, hide the sherry from grandma, panic over the batteries for Mom's toy, and check under the tree.

Bonus - Gertrude, a 94-year-old widow, was heartbroken after her husband Harold died. She decided to end it all with his old Army pistol.

Wanting to make sure she hit her heart and didn’t just cripple herself, she called her doctor. “Doctor, where exactly is a woman’s heart?” “Right below the left breast,” he told her. 

That night Gertrude was admitted to the hospital with a bullet straight through her knee.

Getting Ready for the Big Day

 

Hopefully a slide that captures the beauty of Christmas Decorations and the Tedium of Tuesdays.

Me?  That's work finished for 2025. :-) 

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A Half-Frame Christmas

 

There's something charming about half-frame slides, and this Christmas tree and present one is no different.

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A Simpler Time

 

Of course, not everyone can have a wildly expensive and expansive Christmas. Not everyone has the money / space for an eight foot tree and dozens of presents underneath.

But for everyone, Christmas can be a magical time, especially with the family involved. And those curtains.

Bonus - Musically - Meh. But I like the video. 

Tabernacles Night

 

In the state of Illinois, December 20th was traditionally the night when Santa visited certain homes, to see who was "Present-Bragging". That is, had so much disposable income, that a host of Christmas Presents were installed under the tree, as boast of just how rich they were.

Santa, aided by Tabernacles the wolf (here he must be taking the picture) would visit at 11.37pm, and take half of the presents, to redistribute to more worthy (and poorer) recipients.

Alas, this tradition seems to have died out. I blame Donal Trump.

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Have A Creepy Christmas

 

Something went a bit wrong with this slide, including what looks like a fungal attack.

But, it does leave a bit of a creepy image, IMHO.

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A Visit To Santa's House

 

I'm suspicious. Very suspicious.

Santa lives at the North Pole, yet there's no snow on the ground, and the lads aren't exactly dressed for cold weather.

Ah. Proof of Global Warming. Obviously.

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Walking in a Winter Wonderland

 

Tho' their faces betray a certain ennui regarding the cold, these folks should be enjoying a magical wander in the snowy forest.

Or maybe, they are recreating the Donner Party's expedition, and thinking about who to have for lunch.

Bonus - The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year awards 2025

The Christmas Buffet

 

The problem.

It's Christmas Slide month, but it's also Tedious Tuesday.

Hmmmmm.

OK, what about this very dull slide of a Buffet Table, possibly from the Parker, Jameson and Fosdick Staff Christmas "Do" at the Incontinent Dragon restaurant in Dudley?

Bonus - Christmas at a Hospital

The Snow Clearer

Someone has earned his dollar pocket money by clearing a path, haven't they?

Incidentally, snow in Florida is not as unusual as some might expect.

Bonus - A police officer called the station…

A police officer called the station on his radio.

"I need back up here. An old lady shot her husband for stepping on the floor she just mopped."

"Have you arrested the woman?"

"Not yet. The floor's still wet!"

 

Careful with that Reversing !!!

 

Probably on the Santa List for every boy in the 1960s, a new red bicycle.

But be careful with the rolling backwards, issue.

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