How to Celebrate Swiss Cheese Day?🧀🐁🪤🖱

Every January 2nd

I saw this morning that it was 'Swiss Cheese Day', so this afternoon when I had to get some groceries from my local supermarket, I searched for some Swiss Cheese in the dairy isle and found some cheese marked Swiss, but it was made in New Zealand.

Mainland Swiss

I thought the Swiss would have cracked down on their cheese like the French did with their Champagne, making it illegal to call cheese not made in Switzerland Swiss Cheese?  

The New Zealand Sparkling Wine
I saw the New Year in with

How to Celebrate January 1st, 2026?🥳1🎉

Authorities said the blaze broke out in the early
hours of New Year's Day at Le Constellation bar in
Crans-Montana, one of Switzerland's
most exclusive locales

In a dark irony, I saw the news today here in Australia that witnesses blame "sparklers in Champagne bottles" after 40 were killed in the Swiss Alps blaze on New Year's Day over there.

I can't believe that they would be able to use such flammable things in a bar like that legally.

I've actually got a post coming up about the worst nightclub fire in Brisbane, where 15 people lost their lives, but that fire was deliberately lit by underworld psychopaths.

The main one is featured in the podcast below which tells of that fire.

Ghost Gate Road

Listening to the above podcast about that underworld psychopath chilled me to the bone, as I now realize in hindsight that I could have easily met the same fate as what that poor woman and girls suffered if I had have become friends with those girls or could have identified that psycho, as around that time I spent quite a few weekends in a house two doors down the road from where those girls lived ... and disappeared from.
But that's for a later post ... maybe?

The weird thing is that I met Matthew Condon years ago down in Byron Bay when he was interviewing the author of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' (I met Lionel Shriver after the talk) and we had a lengthy chat before that talk and he signed a few of his books for me, but these weren't the crime books that he would write later.

And I still haven't finished reading one of those books I got him to sign for me back in 2014, but the rest I had read before he signed them, so it's just the trout book I have to finish reading, although I might have to start from the beginning after all these years:-)

Lionel Shriver and Matthew Condon at
 St. Finbar's Hall, March 1st, 2014

We Need to Talk About Kevin