Some more sunshine for your mid-winter blues - happy Australia Day!

marksierra has asked to post this for the homesick ex-pats and Kiwis, and folk hankering for some glorious Southern Hemisphere sunshine!

First, enjoy some quintessential lamingtons!

The Country Women's Association would approve! 

And then settle down to bask in some wonderful amateur pics of the great but often not wellknown aspects of Aussie everyday life:

http://5832.abc.au.projects.fm/setcookie/?attemptCookie=true&mid=&parentUrl=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-19/australia-day-photos-gallery/7094920

And here's the Hottest 100 list!!! #1 was just announced! (Well, about 10 mins ago; I've been busy replaying and dancing around the house...) Hoops! Thank you, The Rubens!  

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/15/countdown/  the full list in order

Music people, wanna try your hands/brains at this quiz? Feel free to turn it into an after-hours drinking game...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/datablog/2016/jan/26/think-you-know-the-hottest-100-test-yourself-with-this-never-ending-quiz