Congratulations to the Birth, Death and Marriage Bureaus around the nation, reporting on the most popular names given to babies born in the past year.
Among the popular names among the girls in the ACT were reported as Charlotte, Matilda, Grace, Ivy, Olivia, Amelia, Hazel, Sophia, Ella and Mia and for the boys came in as Henry, Oliver, William, Theodore, Thomas, Leo, Noah, Jack, Archer and Charlie.
And while the nation Oohs and Aahs at the delightful range of names selected for the future possible leaders of their State or nation, the ACT Domestic Animal Service chose to unveil its most popular dogs’ names, declaring them to include Luna, Bella, Daisy, Coco, Molly, Frankie, Max, Archie and Ruby.
In what could be a world first, ACT’s Domestic Animal Service reported that Canberra chose as its No. 1 dog name ‘Charlie’, the very same name chosen among for the Territory’s top 10 boys.
The question is: will families who call their sons Charlie need to take care that when he’s called for dinner it’s not an invitation to next door’s kennel!
AND just for the record, PS-sssst! guru Frank Cassidy wasn’t too excited learning that ‘Frankie’ was popular with dog owners too.
It appears he hasn’t finished using that name himself!
Stars from Haven?
To summery sunny Queensland now where the ever-creative Department of Health has issued helpful advice to the State’s population on how to hang onto those New Year resolutions so many of us have already lost hold of.
Calling on the undoubted skills of its highly talented Senior Physiotherapist, Cheryl Costello to lead the coaching, the Department focused on returning our holiday-plumped bodies to their pre-party profiles while at the same time catering for those whose physical exercises are mostly intellectual, grappling with the sweat and stress of a calisthenic acronym.
According to Senior Physiotherapist Costello, a strength training regime was the key to overall health and performance.
“For those who are committed to shredding, ‘Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service’ … was the key to overall health and performance” Ms Costello assured, assuring intellectuals that the Service could be acronymised as STARS!
Leaving the STARS to return to earth the wise adviser then went on to warn earth-livers that reclaiming their pre-party profile could suffer from falling foul of the fact that they haven’t been exercising as enthusiastically as they might, leading them to the painful acronym of ‘Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness’, also painfully acronymised as DOMS.
Just as the experts’ wisdom falls in the laps of those on hand, PS-sssst! has noticed that emerging the two Queensland’s wisdomisms, ‘Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Delaying Onset Muscle Soreness’, leads to the surreptitiously incidental acronymic combination – the surprisingly appropriate STARDOMS!
How appropriate an image for the magnanimous Ms Costello!
Giveaways on the way
And while we’re on the topic of great women doing great things, PS News wouldn’t be PS News without our Books, Travel and DVD reviews filed together by our worldly wise woman Rama Gaind whose uber-popular competitions giving away top-drawer Books and DVDs every week are set up to return again for 2022 this February.
So keep an eye out for Rama’s 2022 book reviews and DVD reports and feel free to join the Rama’s Army of competition competitors taking their chances to join the winners every week!
As Rama would say: “It’s free to be in and you have to be in it to win it” and with lucky winners now counting in the hundreds and all at no cost, it’s a little bit of workplace fun that can make a day in the office that little bit more manageable.
Watch this space, or better yet, tune in to read PS News’s Books, DVDs, Movies, Motoring, Music, Dining, Wining and other ‘Services for the Services’ that make coming to work a pleasure.
And don’t forget Rama’s gratuitous giveaways!
The reading we read about!
And finally, what a wonderfully warm welcome for the return of PS News 2022 last week with what must have been a stampede in some Agencies to sign on for the latest edition.
No fewer than an increase of just under 500% eager readers took to the pages in our first week back after a few weeks in which the news and working rooms were empty for the high-holiday with advantage taken of well-earned leaves for a great many of our hardworking writers and readers.
So – as they ask in the classics – now that we’re back at work what are we going to do?
if one-week manages a 500% reading boost as an impressive testimony of post-party acclamation and there is still a week or two of holiday stragglers to return to the working forces and PS News, the weeks ahead look even more promising on the percentage paper.
Hers; hoping they bring another few hundred percentages with them to give our reading measurers even more to read and write about!
‘Till then – next time!!!!
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