A koala gets into the Christmas spirit
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published : 13 Dec 2020 at 04:00
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My favourite festive season tale so far features an Adelaide family who returned home to find a koala perched in an artificial Christmas tree in their lounge. It looked perfectly happy amid all the baubles and twinkling lights, but was less than impressed by the taste of the plastic leaves.
The koala presumably crawled into the house while the family was out. It has since been placed in a nearby area full of trees and appears content up a real eucalyptus tree. As most Aussies will tell you, koalas are not bears but marsupials, but are often referred to as bears mainly because they resemble teddy bears. Which brings us to Paul McCartney s little-known song Ode to a Koala Bear .
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History suggests that critics should consider treading carefully when it comes to McCartney III. Its two predecessors, 1970âs McCartney and 1980âs McCartney II, were greeted with widespread horror: itâs a close-run thing, but they may be the worst-reviewed albums of Paul McCartneyâs entire career.
Paul McCartney: McCartney III album cover
Reeling in disbelief that the architect of Sheâs Leaving Home and Hey Jude could offer up something so ramshackle as his solo debut, the Melody Maker suggested the formerâs contents were both âsheer banalityâ and evidence that the really talented one in the Beatles was George Martin. McCartney II fared even worse: âelectronic junk ⦠crude ⦠tortureâ offered one contemporaneous review, while another suggested that McCartney had âshamed himselfâ by releasing it.