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Time to wheel out my favourite, I feel:

Merry Christmas all. May your collections grow, your lives prosper and your 2025s be uneventful but pleasant. 🌲

We were having this summer/winter conversation the other night…it was my initial view that, if you grew up in Australia, you’d know no different, Christmas would always have been in the middle of summer, which I can’t get my head around at all. The reciprocal view was that the massive movie influence always has Christmas alongside snow and, I guess, Father Christmas comes from Lapland, so is mostly featured in scenes of wintery weather. So, where does that leave the experience of an Australian? Are they as weirded out by the idea of Christmas being a winter celebration, as we are by you all having a bbq in your shorts on the same day? Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, whichever continent you happen to be having it on 🎄🎄

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

It could be either, depending on whether they inserted the wrong letter initially, or reinforced just a small section of a blocked letter using a punch big enough to cover the defective area. You also have to consider the ability to sink a correction deep enough on the die if it had been hardened previously and the degree to which it had been softened in order to sink the new punch. The truth is, we don't know the circumstances and can only speculate. There is however, strong circumstantial evidence on occasion to suggest insufficient depth of strike for the correction or change of date. The above may well be a case of this, but equally could be a repair to the upright of the B, as in this instance the use of E, F, I or L would all broadly follow the shape of the B.

Merry Christmas and to all! Hope you will have a fantastic time with family and friends.

Xmas day forecast for Brisbane, 30 deg. C and sunny.

I believe Chris has fixed this. Welcome @Penny collector

Bah humbug! Just give me the prezzies and some beer. At least I can start commenting ‘evenings getting later’ from tomorrow. I try to be the first. And I do like New Year. But I gladly send my Best Wishes to you all. Jerry

Thanks Paul. Chingford communicated the same.