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The Second Sunday in December

Yesterday was 'Worldwide Candle Lighting Day' and the first day of Hanukkah this year.

Sunday December 14th, 2025 -
Monday December 22nd, 2025

It's also the month of Advent, so the candle theme is big this time of year for all kinds of reasons.

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Begins on the fourth Sunday before
Christmas Day, ends on Christmas Eve

So, it's tragic and horrific that a mass shooting takes place in one of my favourite cities in the world in my home country, where mass shootings are a rarity compared to countries like the USA.

Bondi shooting

Ironically, I spent the afternoon at the cinema watching Russell Crowe playing Hermann Göring in the movie 'Nuremberg' and by the time I got home I had heard reports of active shooters running amok in Sydney and switched on the news to see it was taking place on Bondi Beach, not that far away from where Russell Crowe's team the South Sydney Rabbitohs are based.

There was even a rabbit on my Chinese calendar this morning.

I even watched this interview Russ did about a month ago for a British radio show, where he talks about the Rabbitohs hat he gave the DJ a while back and how Albo (the Australian Prime minister) is a lifelong Rabbitohs supporter, before I went and saw the movie.

Russell Crowe: Playing One of History's
Most Evil Villains | NUREMBERG

Nuremberg (2025)

I have actually never set foot on Bondi Beach in my lifetime, although I have visited the surrounding suburbs.

Being a Sharks supporter myself, I always spend time at Cronulla Beach when I head to a beach down that way.

Hugh Jackman’s very Aussie advice
 to Oprah ahead of visit

Even Oprah has visited Bondi recently thanks to a bit of advice from Hugh Jackman.

I texted my son about the Brown University shooting, which I had heard was happening Sunday morning Australian time, as he had visited Rhode Island in September this year.

I'm always telling my son how I don't like him going to America that much, because of all the mass shootings I hear about on the news, and now here's one in my own country, a country I used to feel pretty safe in, but not anymore.

Shit like this can happen anywhere when gutless f#ckers like this can get their hands on guns and go on a rampage in downtown Sydney where there are everyday normal Aussies and tourists on the same beach as the people these pricks were targeting.

I guess I'll be lighting candles well past New Year's Day?