Star Wars fan completes marathon trek.

I don’t usually post on the weekend but when an item of news catches my eye I just have to share it. I did this one earlier but forgot to post it! Ooops…sorry.. 😦 Anyway, I thought you would still want to see it.

I love this guy. We had been following his trek through the news for the last few months and I have nothing but admiration for his determination.

Jacob French walked across Australia in full Stormtrooper costume for charity, finishing on the 9th of April. Yes, walked. Having travelled through many parts of Australia in our air conditioned four-wheel drive I can only imagine what it would have been like for him in a close-fitting plastic suit.

It took him nine months to walk from Perth to Sydney and he did it all for the Starlight Childrens Foundation. He hoped to raise $50,000. He did far better and raised $100,000. My new hero 🙂

Boxing Day meaning. 1928.

Cairns Post 26 Dec 1928 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40652160

The kids asked me why it was called Boxing Day and I was ashamed to say I didn’t know. I knew enough to say that, contrary to what they were seeing, it didn’t mean the day I spend throwing all the boxes from yesterdays gifts into the recycling bin, but I didn’t have a real answer.

I am not the only one who didn’t, so here is an article answering the same question.

I am shallow enough to have had a laugh at the ‘promiscuous charities’ that received the boxes for donation. I know that it meant indiscriminate charities, but the way we use that word today has changed the way we think of it. Now it sounds like the description the sort of charitable organisations that would support unemployed sex workers or suchlike….

Hope you all got plenty of toys for Christmas, regardless of your age!