<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123927.post-8050200348742497610</id><published>2011-12-25T08:03:00.001+10:30</published><updated>2011-12-25T08:03:19.458+10:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas'/><title type='text'>Merry Christmas!</title><summary type='text'>

It's 8:00am on the 25th of December.  This time of Christmas day, to me anyway, is the best part of Christmas. On Christmas day, the morning is always so still and quiet. Birds chirping woke me up, and there's no other sound. Soon the air will be filled with the sounds of kids playing with new toys, or, at least it should be. Where we used to get bikes, toy cars and the like, kids now get </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/feeds/8050200348742497610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6123927&amp;postID=8050200348742497610&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6123927/posts/default/8050200348742497610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6123927/posts/default/8050200348742497610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas.html' title='Merry Christmas!'/><author><name>Daniel Best</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kvv3fcoXqVE/SxHutQ_MtDI/AAAAAAAAFdg/zPRgcNk1qaU/S220/Bender_Rodriguez.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v07UJg3Dzd4/TvZEuCxqVDI/AAAAAAAAKgE/ypmZFxUH8P8/s72-c/two-santas-futurama.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total><georss:featurename>Adelaide SA 5000, Australia</georss:featurename><georss:point>-34.9287264 138.5999453</georss:point><georss:box>-34.954763400000004 138.5604633 -34.9026894 138.6394273</georss:box></entry>
