Happy Christmas..............................
 Christmas Day this year (in the western church) falls on a Friday and non of us gadgies dare even suggest to our wives or partners that we disappear for the usual walk. Instead thanks to all the readers of the gadgie blog, glad to know somebody reads it and...................

vesele Vanoce
 joyeux Noel
  Frohe Weinachten
   gellukig kerstfeest
    glaedelig jul
     Feliz Natal
      счасtливого  Рождестав ..С Рождеством  Христовым      
       Shengdan Kuaile
         Καλά  Χρioτούyεvvα   

and a better 2016.
from the blogmeister on behalf of all the gadgies and gadgettes