WOULD you believe – 10 days to Christmas? We’ve not yet start to shop. We’re not sure if that was a sign of increased domestic liquidity, or a desire to avoid those hellish crushes that occur.
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AND a pleasant Christmas note – the number of stores that have taken up the long established Brian Bell and Johnston’s Pharmacy custom of free gift wrapping. Bows and sparkles and tinsel confections of every shape and size appear miraculously at the finger tips of the clever ladies involved – a true touch of Christmas.
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SO what are you buying Her or Him or Them as a Christmas reminder this year? Tell us, we know how to keep a secret ... in fact, we’d love to hear about the gifts you’ve bought for the 25th. Drop us an e-mail at DeeNesenolis@hotmail.com. Answers involving arsenic, cyanide, hemlock or do-it-yourself euthanasia kits are unacceptable.
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TOP of the list in the States, believe it or not, are genetically engineered cats and dogs. The dogs all look debonair and handsome, not a Snert among ’em; the cats belong on a Mackintosh Toffee tin or a box of Fox’s Jellies – not a suggestion of a claw or fang in sight. As for the bitches – need we say more? They’re all curly eyelashes and sly smiles and coiffed hair with names to match. Whatever happened to Spot?
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THE terrible impact of InterOil’s abrupt price increases for various fuels coupled with the Government’s apparent inability to fight back may well make mincemeat of the benefits supposedly flowing from the K800 million Government injection into the transport sector.
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GOOD heavens! An Australian who actually claims to believe that “the younger generation of Australian parliamentarians lack sufficient knowledge of PNG and the various issues facing the country”. So said Dr Ben Reilly when addressing the 9th Pacific Island Parliamentary Dialogue in Goroka on Monday.
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WE’VE been maintaining that for some time now – and we might add the same applies to the wave of young, well-meaning but often uninformed Oz public servants that has replaced their grizzled but knowledgeable predecessors. Cheers!
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– Dee Nesenolis