Back to Brighton life!
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You would be forgiven for thinking that all car-drivers in Brighton are
permanently DRUNK.
In fact their wavering around in the road is due to the POT...
BIRTHDAY
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It is Doug's Birthday on Thursday (9/11). He originally said he didn't
want any celebration i.e. party or anything else. He eventually agreed to
a get...
EACH TO THEIR OWN
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*Hmmmm. A few comments about our choice of cabinet for out on our dining
room patio.*
*I did consider a box type thing, to keep seat squabs in, and t...
Kakariki
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This guy came into my work last week with his bird - I can't remember the
type of bird but he said she was a type of green cockatiel. After looking
on...
Monday
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The lisping choir doing the *BeeGeeS *a tad surreal but welcome on a misty
Monday morning. Autumn is here, and it’s remaining murky and darkish at 7
am...
The church mouse.
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Three o'clock on Sunday afternoon and the governments new emergency alert
system has a trial run. Although it had been well advertised the dystopic
sound...
Incapacitated
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Over the past five or six days, I've been having more and more severe
arthritis symptoms in my wrists and fingers. I can just barely type on my
laptop's ke...
Maslow
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Somewhere way, way, way back in my university days we had in some class or
other been 'invited' to discuss Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs. I seem to
recall ...
Autumn Is Calling
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Despite sultry August days, subtle signs of changing seasons are all around.
Summer days are noticeably shorter. There is a cooler rush to the evening
air...
At last.......Crete....Part 1
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It's the color of the sea.......so uniquely beautiful.
Brief history of Chania ~
Minoan civilization: 2700-1450 BCE
Fell under Roman control: 69 BCE...
The Boys
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We have had deer on our street for many many years but I don't remember
ever seeing two bucks together. Usually just one with his ladies. No
ladies toda...
Cancer update
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I was back to the doctor this week about my cancer spot. He cut out what
he could see and now I have some big, black stitches sticking out of my
head be...
Aug. 10, 2025
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In all this heat, I’m still working on perennial/ shrub beds. This will be
a quick post, but for those of you who do your own gardening and end up ...
Normal life
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Everything is so relative. Missiles from Yemen are already less scary,
after the missiles from Iran that killed and destroyed thousands of homes
just by...
Friday prayers
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Look at sales figures, origins, annual reports, statements from company
chairmen; become armchair investors and see what you would do yourself,
annual ...
Aoteaora's first Maori police woman
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Evelyn Mete Kingi was born Evelyn Owen in Moerewa and has been described as
a woman of resilience and character.
She was born in 1922 and joined the thir...
Farewell My Friends
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After blogging for nearly six years, I have decided to retire. Blogging
filled an empty spot in my life after losing my husband, but that has
changed...
Japandi Bedroom Makeover
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*Do you want a break from politics and British summer weather? Read on...*
“Another mural? Are you pulling my leg?”
Colin was back last month to decor...
Catching up!
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Oh dear, nearly six months since I last posted a blog. It is not that I
have been bothered to write to you. Oh no. It is because words have been
absent ...
Professing !
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Actual professing.
There are times when every learned person has the duty of stepping up to
the line and of explaining the intricacies of life from the...
Internal Garden Monologue
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If you had told me 5 years ago, I would be sitting in a house, at a table
over looking a front garden in Scotland, I would have laughed my socks
off. I...
A Note of Sadness
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One of the problems about getting so involved with these m/s recipe books
is that I feel as though I almost know the women who wrote them. I can see
how th...