National Serpent Day in the Year of the Snake?🐍

National Serpent Day is a day of reflection and coming to grips with our fears?

How to Celebrate National Serpent Day?

The main symbols that are typically associated with the serpent include vengefulness and vindictiveness, medicine and poison, guardianship, and fertility and rebirth. In modern times, the serpent can be associated with political propaganda and modern medicine.

RFK Jr., Trump's pick for HHS

National Serpent Day gives you the opportunity to delve deeper into this creature and find out more about what it means for different people all over the world, as well as the role that it has played in history too.

Exit the Dragon, Enter the Snake? 🐉🚪🐍🧨

UPDATE: February 1st, 2025

I checked my blog stats as soon as I posted this post and saw that I had 88 hits from Hong Kong and 8 hits from my own country Australia.
888 is a very auspicious number in Chinese culture:-)

Dimboola?💒🔥🚒🎭

I saw a news story about the "Dimboola fires" and how a wedding venue called Little Desert Nature Lodge was burnt down by the fires.

I was under the impression that Dimboola was just a made-up town for the name of a stage play/movie that I had never watched until reading this news story about the Dimboola fires and finding out the movie was available to watch for free on Amazon Prime if you had a subscription, which I did, so I watched it.

Dimboola (1979)

'Dimboola' is one of the worst Australian movies I have ever seen ... and that's saying something, as I have seen a lot of bad Australian films.

The Dimboola Fire

Little Desert Nature Lodge (Facebook)

"Dimboola is a 1979 Australian independent film directed by John Duigan about a country wedding reception. It is based on the 1969 play of the same name by Jack Hibberd and was principally filmed on location in Dimboola, Victoria."

Darkly ironic that a Nature Lodge famed as a wedding venue just outside the town of Dimboola would burn down from a fire started on January 27th, 2025 (the Australia Day public holiday this year because the Australia Day fell on a Sunday) and 26 days after the passing of one of the movie's stars, Chad Morgan -

The Sheik of Scrubby Creek Passes Away on New Years Day?🗓🦷🪥