Electric feeling as Santa graces every little thing

MONDAY night, an inflatable Santa from Warland Crescent last seen flying over Wulguru, and the roof Christmas lights from a house in Shepherd St now gracing the Picnic Bay jetty.

What a storm! Reminds me of the build- up to the wet in the early ’ 80s, let’s hope so. Though the wettest places were everywhere but the dam catchment, of course.

Speaking of that, I see a picture on social media of our Mayor sitting on Santa’s knee, and she tells us she asked Santa for a wet to fill the dam, I’m sorta hoping her plan for fixing the city’s water woes is more substantial.

After the tempest, the lights are on once more, and haven’t they changed over the years, fair dinkum, my girl had a huge spend up, solar lights for $ 1! One dollar, how do the elves make them for that, and after the storm Monday night these $ 1 lights are still going. Don’t tell Ergon. These stayed on and my house power went out, that says something.

Imagine for a moment the year 2030, and Townsville Desert with Sun Camels taking us around Castle Dune ... hang on ... that’s the alternate future if we don’t get the pipeline. Think of the Christmas lights then, well I reckon the kids will design them on phones, simply delete and recreate the next night.

Look at how far we’ve come since the globes, and the domestic woes they created, including the cry “Bugger this, the whole lot have had it because of one globe, I’m going to the pub”!

Now of course it’s all changed, we have the LED lights, inflatable Santas, reindeer, snow men, in fact that huge inflatable Santa in Crispin Court, if you filled it up with helium it could fly the Cowboys to Brissy.

In the convoy tonight, you’ll see giant reindeer towing boats, shivering snowmen, chandeliers you won’t believe, a new star on a roof that can be seen from the international space station, a giant computer- driven tree with special messages, dogs dressed up, kids dressed up, everyone dressed up, 12 kangaroos, two different reindeer stalls, Santa in a window ( incredibly real, I thought it was actually him and asked what happened to my new tropical shirt … he didn’t answer … maybe it WAS him), penguins, Santa on a seesaw, a Santa theatre, a winter wonderland in Cleary you wouldn’t believe and even Santa doing a … well … rear- view lower disrobing …

I have so many stories over the years of magnificent displays from Halstead Gulliver, to Oonoonba and the chocolate cake- giving Santa, it’s been a most glorious journey. Happy Days P. S. While I was typing away to you, moments ago, an extremely large wasp was hovering, think the bug from Alien. So I’ve checked and her nest is right under the table where I’m sitting. This could have been an extremely painful column, if you know what I mean, and I don’t just mean by reading it.