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Tuesday Edition
Well, hello, members, fancy seeing you here this wonderful Tuesday morning. How are we all feeling? I (Vella) don't know about you, but I'm feeling pretty excited, maybe because the festive season is just around the corner! Well, I guess my inner kid is just coming out. That feeling when you're counting down the days until Christmas... Yeah, that's the one! Am I excited about the gifts? Of course (that is if I'm getting any). But I think what I'm really looking forward to is family time – being around the people I love and who make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside while we feast on some delicious food. What's not to love, eh? What about you? What are you looking forward to this holiday season? Share your thoughts in our forum here.
Anyway, let's get into today's newsletter! We have a bunch of things for you to check out, so without further ado…
First things first, let’s give you the answer to yesterday’s riddle!
You can catch me easily, especially around Christmas, but you cannot throw me.
Blimey, we had no clue about this one, but it seems quite a few of you picked up that the answer was (drum roll please)... a cold! But we think Christmas spirit works too! Well, that was a tricky one, eh? Glad you lot were able to ‘catch’ the answer (apologies, but we just had to throw that in there). If you got the answer correct, scroll down to the bottom of this newsletter for your well-deserved shout-out!
Now then, what’s happening in Australia and around the world today?
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Coles shoppers are loving this $3.50 cleaning buy that will have your whole house sparkling.
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This is not a drill! Woolworths has announced a jaw-dropping discount on a popular party snack staple, sending shoppers into a frenzy! Be quick!
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ALDI shoppers were left outraged by the drastic hike in the price of their favourite summer fruit. You won't believe how much more this summer staple will cost you.
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Kmart shoppers have been left disappointed by a popular festive item, with many labelling it as a 'total failure'.
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Attention, members! The Australian Federal Police has revealed the one thing shoppers should avoid as reports of festive season scams increase.
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A professional cleaner has revealed the three popular cleaning hacks you should never try in your home and why they don't work. Are
you guilty of these?
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Are you planning to send Christmas cards and gifts this year? You better hurry because Australia Post's final cut-off date for posting Christmas items is creeping up on
us.
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WATCH: The Sunrise crew took a hilarious swipe at David ‘Kochie’ Koch during a behind-the-scenes moment to celebrate his final day on-air this
year. Get ready to chuckle!
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Dyson has launched a revolutionary new product that cleans the air as you breathe. But the real shock comes when you see the price tag!
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An elderly woman was allegedly robbed of more than $20,000 while living in a nursing home. So who betrayed her trust?
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Four men have been charged in connection with a massive cyber scam that stole $150 million from victims worldwide.
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Let your taste buds take a trip to the Mediterranean with this delicious Greek Vegetable Casserole recipe, thanks to @Suzanne rose.
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And finally, two space aliens land at a petrol station, but the attendant doesn’t even bat an eye! Why? Find out in this hilarious joke shared by member @Skipton!
How's that for a wrap of your news for the day, members? Not bad for a Tuesday, eh? Well, the fun doesn't stop there! Stay tuned for a hilarious joke from member @Cheb, a great trivia question for all you geography buffs out there, and a stunning photo in our 'Picture of the Day', courtesy of member @Big Al.
Now, for the moment you've all been waiting for... it's time to announce the winners of our Christmas competition and Christmas giveaway! As mentioned, the
winners will each receive a $100 gift voucher to Coles, Woolworths, ALDI or IGA OR $100 Mastercard or VISA voucher! First up, the winner of our Christmas memory competition is member @featherfour with her hilarious memory about her family dog eating an entire Christmas Pudding! We absolutely LOVED it and we’re sure you will too! So congratulations @featherfour, you’ve won yourself a $100 gift
voucher. We will get in touch with you today! We’ve featured their memory in our ‘Yesterday’s Australia’ segment below so make sure you check it out.
As for our Christmas giveaway, the lucky winners are members @LadyMoonlight, @Caroline257, @Ricci, @Petra, and @Peter D! Congratulations, members! We will be in touch with you all via email later today. We cannot thank everyone enough for entering this competition and signing up to our forum. We wish we could have given a voucher to every single one of you!
And, course, we still have all the usual games and puzzles for you to enjoy, including our Word Pairs and Abbreviation Game for some fun brain
training? We also have our classic games, including Word Association Game, Rearrange, Add or Subtract Word Game! Keep a Word, Drop a Word Game, and Can you name 5? As well as our Sudoku puzzles, OzGrid and OzWord. And our card games, including Solitaire and Blackjack.
As always, members, stay safe and happy reading!
- Jonathan, Vella, Sean, James, Sethia, April, Jarred, Ally & Maddie.
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Source: www.luxurylifestylemag.co.uk
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B. Mediterranean Sea
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Scroll to the bottom of the newsletter for the answer.
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Image source: Shutterstock
Today's 'Yesterday's Australia' is thanks to none other than @featherfour, the winner of our Christmas competition. This hilarious yet heart-warming memory of Christmas past is sure to bring a smile to your face. 'My mum loved to make a Christmas pudding, cooking it weeks before Christmas and letting it hang so that the flavours could develop properly. She had diligently saved a purse-full of sixpences at the beginning of decimal currency, so that she could hide them in the pudding, and would swap them out on Christmas day. Once or twice there were…issues though. There was the year that Mum had hung the pudding in Dad's shed, and the dog found it and ate the lot. You wouldn't think a corgi could fit a whole Christmas pudding in there. When Mum put those sixpences into the pudding, she would count so that she knew how many there should be. She got back every single sixpence that the dog
ate and boiled them for a very long time on the stove. She swears she never used those ones again, but…how would we know?' Check out the rest of Featherfour's winning entry on our forum.
Oh my goodness, what a funny story! I can picture the dog eating the entire Christmas pudding and I cannot stop laughing at the thought. It must have been an ordeal for your poor Mum but despite all the setbacks, I’m glad to hear that there was always a delicious pudding on the table. Ah, Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year! Thank you for bringing a smile to our faces, @featherfour.
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Christmas Classic Gift Hamper $25 @ BIG W
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Image Source: Member @Big Al
Black-breasted Buzzard and Emu Egg
How interesting is this photo taken by @Big Al? They posted it on our photography forum with the caption, 'Although a natural phenomenon, this is from a series of photos I took at a wildlife park near Darwin. The Buzzard smashes a stone onto the egg to break it for its contents. It took him a couple of go as he threw the rock from as high as he could reach! In this case, the contents are made from hens'
eggs, and the Emu egg is made of clay.'
I love how this photo captures a moment in nature that we don't often get to see. What a fascinating and unique picture! Thank you, @Big Al, for sharing this photo with us.
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1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the South Island of present-day New Zealand; initially, he calls it Staten Landt and changes it a year later to Nieuw Zeeland.
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1920 Francis G. Pease's interferometer at Mount Wilson Observatory is the first to measure the diameter of a star - the Betelgeuse.
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1934 British astronomer J.P.M. Prentice discovers Nova Herculis, one of the brightest novas of the 20th century.
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1975 Australian Federal Election - Liberals with a coalition under Malcolm Fraser win the largest-ever parliamentary majority.
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2002 The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
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Eleven people were hanging on a rope under a helicopter: 10 men and one woman.
The rope was not strong enough to carry them all, so they decided that one had to leave, because otherwise, they were all going to fall.
Oh my goodness, this made me laugh hard. A big thank you to member @Cheb for sharing this hilarious joke. Check out the rest of the joke here.
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The Cayman Islands is a BOT (British Overseas Territory) located in the Caribbean Sea.
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