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Each year for the last several years, Santa has made his way around our suburb on the back of his sleigh one of the Bushfire Brigade's Fire Trucks, namely, Puff the Magic Wagon. You can hear him coming!

7 seconds of video and 4 pictures below the cut.

( Santa on his fire truck )

Thankfully, it will be quiet for the bushfiries this side of the country this year. In fact some areas of NSW are flooded. Could be a different matter on the west coast though, supposed to be 38C (100F).

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Each year for the last several years, Santa has made his way around our suburb on the back of his sleigh one of the Bushfire Brigade's Fire Trucks, namely, Puff the Magic Wagon. You can hear him coming!

7 seconds of video and 4 pictures below the cut.

( Santa on his fire truck )

Thankfully, it will be quiet for the bushfiries this side of the country this year. In fact some areas of NSW are flooded. Could be a different matter on the west coast though, supposed to be 38C (100F).

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Officially ticked over into the 25th here, so Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate.

Random thought from mother while watching the Christmas Carols: "Hi-5 is the Spice Girls gone wrong." Better than the 'they need poles to dance around' comment from last year.

We're having a slightly strange Christmas...no presents for us, we paid for each other's dvds that are mostly still in the mail somewhere. We haven't really had 'proper' present giving for a few years. We've mostly got them long before Christmas and you just hand over the money ;)

Lara's the only one getting presents. And that won't be till Saturday. Both brothers are working Christmas Day (one is a cop, the other a quarantine officer at Sydney airport), so it will be just the parents, sister and I, though we are having yummy food. Lara will drop in for a short while, but will be spending the day with her maternal grandparents (it will be her grandfather's last Christmas :(). But s-i-l wants my brother to be there when the presents are opened, so hence the not till Saturday when everyone will be available. Then we'll be going to the local Chinese restaurant for dinner.


( Oh, our Christmas tree... )

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Officially ticked over into the 25th here, so Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate.

Random thought from mother while watching the Christmas Carols: "Hi-5 is the Spice Girls gone wrong." Better than the 'they need poles to dance around' comment from last year.

We're having a slightly strange Christmas...no presents for us, we paid for each other's dvds that are mostly still in the mail somewhere. We haven't really had 'proper' present giving for a few years. We've mostly got them long before Christmas and you just hand over the money ;)

Lara's the only one getting presents. And that won't be till Saturday. Both brothers are working Christmas Day (one is a cop, the other a quarantine officer at Sydney airport), so it will be just the parents, sister and I, though we are having yummy food. Lara will drop in for a short while, but will be spending the day with her maternal grandparents (it will be her grandfather's last Christmas :(). But s-i-l wants my brother to be there when the presents are opened, so hence the not till Saturday when everyone will be available. Then we'll be going to the local Chinese restaurant for dinner.


( Oh, our Christmas tree... )