Moving and improving
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Moving plants around, and trying to give them better growing conditions,
improving them. Some plants thrive when neglected — the hens and chicks in
their ...
This Last Week.
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We are reliably informed that the recent Spanish and Portuguese power
failures were due to their illogical obsession with 'Net Zero'. Miliband
(above)...
May the fourth
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Hubby and I have been pushing way too hard.
We have decided to just rest today
Since it’s may 4th here? We decided to watch
Star Wars
I’m knitting whil...
WALK ABOUT
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*A small sleep in today, certainly feels good after yesterday morning.*
*This morning Stew and I are meeting up with Steve, Bex and their kids to
take...
The owl cafe.
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The UK seems far away but we wake to find there's a couple of dozen e-mails
this morning about the local election results in England. The far right has
d...
Te Rau Aroha A Company Maori Battalion Museum
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Yesterday morning we set off north to Paihia, 70 kms. away. Doug's eldest
daughter came as well and was our driver.
Showers had been forecast but the...
Riding
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I took this photo across the road from where an old quarry use to be
opposite the Grey River. These 2 have to be tourists as I don't that locals
would...
Grey Days
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All around us storms have apparently been raging. Christchurch is flooded,
Wellington is closed with high wind speeds, Cook Strait ferry sailings have
be...
May Days
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"It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is
most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their
fragrance ...
Quiet life
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As if there were no shortage of dramas in our lives, yesterday there was
extreme weather, extreme heat and very strong winds and with them came a
huge f...
Blessed Pascha ~ Happy Easter!
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Our kouvouklion this year. We had to do it after one service and hurry up
to finish before the next one began. We were vacuuming and sweeping as
peop...
Easter weather
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As we all know, Easter comes in the spring in the northern hemisphere and
autumn in the southern.
Of course, autumn is a time of cooling down toward win...
The Saga Continues
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Keeping in mind the 'event' happened on January 11th.
My first appointment was on January 27th. This was what I thought was
going to be the stress test...
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...
Sunday, February 23,2025
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Here are some pictures taken today. I finally got out for a much needed
walk around the little village. There are now vertical snow walls sliced
o...
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...
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