Happy Christmas , Bloggers, hope you are enjoying the Snow, it's bloody hot here. Cheers, that's the wonder of the Australian Christmas, Sun sand and warm to hot days.

Is this true, are there really 900,000 Macdonalds outlets in the US, this would effectively mean that you have one store for every 333 people. I just read this in an article on a different subject, re: Maccers getting a tad upset about the term now in one of the US dictionaries, "MacJob" dead end job with no prospects for advancement. Which is upsetting Macdonals no end. No world breaking stuff but I would suspect this to a typo.

Soldier T'was the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, in a one bedroom house, made of plaster and stone. I had come down the chimney, with presents to give, and to see just who, in this home, did live. I looked all about, a strange sight I did see, no tinsel, no presents, not even a tree. no stocking by mantle, just boots filled with sand, on the wall hung pictures, of far distant lands. with medals and badges, awards of all kinds,...