smile... it's friday...

Well December is upon us and although it doesn't feel very much like Christmas in Australia, we are hopping on a plane to New Zealand tonight and taking a months holiday including Christmas spent with my wonderful aunt in Auckland. In light of this I thought Some festive facts would go down a treat this week.

US scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world's presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second.

Although now mostly vegetarian, in Victorian times, mince pies were made with beef and spices.

The tradition of putting tangerines in stockings comes from 12th-century French nuns who left socks full of fruit, nuts and tangerines at the houses of the poor.

Carols began as an old English custom called wassailing, toasting neighbours to a long life.

In Greece, Italy, Spain and Germany, workers get a Christmas bonus of one month's salary by law.

If you received all of the gifts listed in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" song, you would receive 364 presents!

During the Christmas season, 1.76 billion candy canes will be made.

The average person spends 2 hours and 27 minutes wrapping presents!

The average person will go to one Christmas party, sing five carols and eat 30 pieces of chocolate candy!

Based on previous surveys, 17% of you will embarrass yourselves in some way at your office Christmas party!

Nearly 3,000 tons of aluminium foil will be used to wrap Christmas turkeys!

Happy Friday all and hope people are beginning to get into the festive spirit a little bit too. x

facts on friday...

I've found some really funny animal facts this week that are bound to make you smile.

Cows have best friends.

A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance.”

Millions of trees grow every year thanks to squirrel’s forgetting where they put their nuts.

Butterflies can taste with their feet.

Sea otters hold each other’s paws when they sleep so they don’t drift apart.

When rabbits jump and twist out of excitement, it is called a binky.

Gentoo penguins propose to their lifemates with a pebble.

Sea horses are monogamous life mates and travel holding each other’s tails.

Male pups will intentionally let female pups “win” when they play-fight so they can get to know them better.

Worms communicate by snuggling.

A cat’s nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.

A group of porcupines is called a “prickle.”

Now if that hasn't got you smiling I don't know what will.... Have a great weekend.

funny friday...

It's Friday again... where does the time go.

Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.

The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.

A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone. x