Ever tried to have a shower without getting your chest wet.
Might have to follow some of my grandkids example and just have one every couple of days. 
Or have it shaved 
Just had a great zoom meeting with our prospective builder, he talks my kind of language and made me feel very comfortable straight away. Thankfully his experience extends to commercial work and has already come up with some more efficient ways to help speed things up and keep costs down. Believes they could start in April and itāll take 6-8 months.
All of this helps but what really sealed the deal is he has a beautiful blue cattle dog, told him how much we miss ours and that I canāt get another till the build is finished.
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Thatās great news. You canāt beat a likeminded down to earth builder that will get the job done well.
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Guess whoās the judge at the kids Christmas tree lighting contest tomorrow night. Iāll let them (and their parents) know that Iām easily swayed by a good bottle of red. 
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We have a winner, not this one as Mrs Pete and I thought this was a little agro but it did make me think of you guys.
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Hmmm, not exactly bursting with Christmas cheer. He/sheāll be getting a lump of coal from Santa then 
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WOW!
This young person needs to be reminded that Christmas was invented in EUROPE, to celebrate the life of a Man that was born in a DESERTš¤·š»āāļø
Todays Christmas, however, is very much a product of āWesternā Capitalism and not religion at allš«¤
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Alternatively, Christmas hijacked the prior traditional (Pagan?) celebration of the start of the days getting longer again in the northern hemisphere. 
Willy.
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Oh yes the good old days of hijacking women from other tribes nearby!
Iāve done the same but in a slightly more civilised manner.
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Yesā¦ after double by-pass operation!
Thankfully a couple of stitches arenāt that serious.
Judging by your responses to little Miss 12 year olds entry you seemed to have missed the whole point to her story.
In Australia (like the rest of the southern hemisphere) while youāre enjoying your fire place and baked turkey etc on Christmas Day weāre usually just baking in the heat. However everything we see on tv or the movies is the kind of dashing through the snow stuff that we generally canāt relate to. 25 years or so ago it was almost impossible to buy a Christmas card that wasnāt based on a white Christmas, it was like we didnāt exist.
Now thankfully itās embraced the seafood and even a BQ has replaced the inappropriate bake lunch that our poor parents and grandparents slaved over in hot a stuffy kitchens.
I guess she was just trying to express the differences but lacked a bit of subtlety.
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Not lost on meā¦.we have friends and family down in Oz.
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My thoughts are that Little Miss 12 year old is rather articulate for her age, bloody well done!
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That made me chuckle.
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I would have given it her but Mrs Pete thought differently
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Looks nice, they should survive that.
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Great views!
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