Christmas Island Food shortage?

Christmas Island Food shortage?

Unfortunately the supply ship carrying food and fuel to Christmas Island has not been able to dock for nearly a month raising concerns over food and fuel shortages on the island. The bad weather is also prevent supplies reaching the island by air.

Three men have appeared court in connection with the unfortunate incident of Christmas Island on December 15 2010 when up to 50 asylum seekers died when the vessel they were travelling in broke up and sank after crashing into rocks. The charges do not relate to the deaths but to the attempt to smuggle non Australians into Australia.

The first of many inquiries into the tragedy has found that there was no intelligence evidence that the ship has left Indonesia with the intention of sailing to Christmas Island and hence the Australian border protection force was unaware of the ships approach. There will soon be trials of a new land based Radar system on Christmas Island, these will include using wooden boats, to see if this will give some additional intelligence, in future.


A Queensland man has been missing since before Christmas and concerns are growing over his safety and well being.

Dangers of a Christmas tree!

A large tinder dry Christmas fell onto a burning candle and the ensuing fire gutted a house in Lake Oswego Oregon. During the blaze a women suffered first and second degree burns to her arms and one of two pet cats was killed. The other cat and a pet dog were found hiding in the basement two days later.

While you have to feel for the lady concerned at losing her home you do have to ask why did she still have a Christmas tree nearly a month after Christmas and then lighting candle near it?

Do you wish it was Christmas everyday?

If you do and you live in the UK then visiting some larger towns and cities will answer your wish as they still have their Christmas decorations up. Apparently it takes a long time to put up the decorations and a long time to take them down, with councils claiming that they try to remove the decorations whilst causing as little disruption as possible. One council said it put its lights up in February and aimed to have them down in the third week of February, that is half the year that the lights are up, is it worth taking them down?