Canberra Confidential / Merry Christmas, everyone!

BAH, humbug! It’s getting to look a bit too much like Christmas too soon. As CC chases this column’s deadline (in September), we wonder if the joy of Christmas is going to be a bit stretched by December 25.

CBD Ltd seems to have commissioned a Christmas illustration in Garema Place to usefully brighten one of the many unleased shop windows in Civic.

And spotted in a Woolworths store by an elf snout, who clearly worries unnaturally about managing the expectations of little, wide-eyed believers, is this early contribution to the festive season from Cadburys, a marshmallow Santa to get us through to Christmas Eve.   

And while we are dispensing gratuitous Christmas advice, maybe it’s time CBD Ltd dumped the dromedaries, that is cancel the camels at Christmas.

Civic needs more glamour than these one-humped wonders. And we should no further than Sydney, where the city council has engaged glitzy Guy and Jules Sebastian as its Christmas ambassadors.

The Eurovision-finalist singer and his stylist wife are charged with encouraging visitors to the Emerald City over the festive season. How isn’t terribly clear yet.

“We love the buzz of our city and nothing beats twinkling lights, Christmas decorations and the huge tree in Martin Place – it puts you in a festive mood and we love the feeling!” they trilled.

“We would love for people to really come together as a Sydney community at Christmas time. It really is the time of year to appreciate our loved ones and be thankful for all the good things we have in life.”

Another Santa marshmallow, anyone?

The cupcakes cometh

LYDIA Aisabie runs a cupcake stall outside her family’s newsagency at Lanyon Marketplace, Conder, every year to raise funds for the Breast Cancer Foundation.

She does it in memory of her grandmother Carole, who died from breast cancer in 1994 when Lydia was just four months old.

So, from 9am on Sunday, October 18, Conder’s cupcake queen will be back for the fifth consecutive year selling more than 500 cupcakes (which she bakes herself).

“I really enjoy baking and being creative with cupcakes so it’s a perfect way for me to help,” she says.

“At just $1 per cupcake it’s an affordable donation that can change lives.

“I will also be selling lolly bags and around 300 balloons, which will be on display around Lanyon Newsagency and the cupcake stall.

“Each year is more successful, raising over $1000 for this charity.

The Goldy oldie

TO celebrate 10 years since Ickle Pickle Productions launched itself with  “Goldilocks”, it’s bringing the show back to Belconnen Theatre this month and Jenny Lange will be wearing the original Goldilocks dress, which director Justin Watson says they’ve carefully kept away from the moths.  

Better still, they’re performing 10 shows, priced at $10 a ticket to mark the first-decade birthday. October 3 to 11, bookings to stagecenta.com or 6253 1454.

Bad park, baby

PERHAPS it was someone thinking about having a baby who parked in the mums-and-bubs area of the underground Coles car park in Gungahlin.

But it caught the sharp eye of CC snout Steve McGrory who wondered how they’d get a baby seat into a two-seater convertible.

 

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