The Southern Yarn is once again ready for your enjoyment. It will be in the collection on our Yarns page, as well as via the image here. Thanks for sticking with us through our 75th anniversary in 2025 and we look forward to the year ahead with you.

Here’s Charlie’s editorial to get you started…

Many of you know, of course, that our Down Under Club meets for several of our events in the Scandinavian Cultural Centre. This has been a happy and convenient arrangement for many years now. For those who haven’t been there, we meet upstairs in a central open area adjoining the kitchen. Around that area are five other rooms dedicated for each of the SCC member countries – Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Those rooms are mini-museums and serve to help keep their cultures alive and educate and entertain the public, especially during Folklorama.

This year marks 150 years of settlement by the Icelanders in Manitoba. The Winnipeg Free Press has recently run a few nods to this major milestone. A good one to read is “Icelanders’ Manitoba saga marks Year 150”, by Conrad Sweatman (WFP 16Oct2025).

Meanwhile, as we’ve been highlighting throughout the year in the Yarn, our little Club has been celebrating 75 years! We will reflect on this achievement at our upcoming AGM – hopefully there will be a good turnout to help inform our start for the next 75.

In this issue there is the usual mix of Club news, travel, remembrance, trivia and birding. Thank you to my editorial assistants Jenny and Brian and our other contributors and advertisers. And, in case you have wondered – yes, we do make extensive use of AI to produce the Yarn — Actual Intelligence. 😊