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Postman makes Christmas stockings for 250 dogs!

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1 month agoon

A postman in the US meets 250 dogs in his daily route and for years has been making a Christmas stocking for them all. He calls his tradition ‘Santa Paws’.
Scott Arnold lost his son this year and thought he would have been unable to do his usual 250 Christmas stockings but as his son had loved dogs so much he thought he should give it a go to distract himself and a way to honour his son Jason.
He buys miniature Christmas stocking for all the dogs and personalises each of them with the dogs name. Scott Arnold knows all the names of all the dogs that he meets in his route. In his stockings he also puts a newsletter where he welcomes every new dog and remembers all the dogs that have crossed the Rainbow Bridge. This year 18 dogs in his route have passed away and even if they don’t get their usual treats from him, they will be fondly remembered.
Scott, who is now 66, has been delivering dogs Christmas stockings for over 20 years and found that even this year, organising the stockings and delivering them was a good therapy to deal with the death of his own son.
Worked in many sectors including recruitment and marketing. Lucky to have found a soulmate who was then taken far too soon. No intention of moving on and definitely not moving to Thailand for the foreseeable future. Might move forward. Owned by a cat.

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It’s fairly rare to get snow in London but it’s even rarer to get it in Malibu. The Southern California city is more well known for his beaches and surfing than its ski pistes but we are living in strange times. It’s near Los Angeles after all.
The snow came with a storm on Saturday, it probably looks more like hail than proper snow but it’s still a rare sight. There are two more storms forecasted for the next few days. The mountain community just outside Malibu is expected to get up to a foot of snow in the next few days.
Deputies assisting CHP – West Valley on another roll over, this one is on Malibu Canyon… and yes that is snow on the ground😳. If you need to be on the roads, please #slowdown and keep your 👀 eyes on the road. @thelocalmalibu @MalibuNews @acornnewspaper @TheMalibuTimes @991KBU pic.twitter.com/mgOPXWp6rp
— LASD Lost Hills Stn. (@LHSLASD) January 24, 2021
Books
A bookshop that sells books for the visually impaired opens in Paris

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3 days agoon
January 25, 2021Two French publishing houses have opened a specialized bookshop in Paris, in the Pantheon area, called the “Librairie des grands caractères”, a way to grant even the visually impaired the luxury of a walk among books. And the sensual pleasure of touching and breathing paper.
Customers are those who suffer from vision-related problems, due to disease or age and we are talking of over a million people in a country like France.
And these books are specialò the paper is made so as not to dazzle, the line spacing is studied, the contrast is never excessive, even and the character is not that of traditional books but an ad hoc one, called Luciole.
One more reason not to abandon reading on paper is, in the case of some totally or partially reversible eye diseases, its important rehabilitative power for sight.
Unfortunately the catalogue of books for visually impaired people is still very limited, it has only about 600 titles.

A Smart Survey survey revealed that the happiest city in the UK is Edinburgh. The reasons are the quality of life, the high salaries, the average working hours per week and the beauty of the city.
Two seaside towns follow in second and third place: Bournemouth and Brighton.
In fourth place we find Southend and in fifth Bristol. Followed by Colchester and then Glasgow in eighth place.
In ninth place we have both Liverpool and Manchester and in tenth Milton Keynes.
London is in thirteenth place, takes points for the average high salaries but loses some for the many hours of average work per week.
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