WHAT DAY IS IT?
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*Wake up, roll over, check the time, wonder what's on today?*
*We have a 'free day' from people coming in to give us quotes, or just talk
to us.*
*Th...
Not Ready Yet!
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Very small new potatoes in a plant pot.
Usually we are digging and eating our homegrown new potatoes 🥔 by the end
of May.
Yesterday when weeding I une...
Man Crush
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Did I tell you that I’m 63 on Sunday?
Am I too old to have a man crush?
Well I have
*Jason Mantzoukas*
Hair like an unmade bed,
Beard like a rabbit nest
I...
Changeable
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Heavy rain is forecast but we wake to a largely cloudless sky. The six am
radio leads with news that Elon Musk is leaving the government or at least
his ...
Yard work: thwarting blackberry vines
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Here are some of the the results of some of the fun I've been having
recently. I have to lean into the hedge and try to cut the stems of
blackberry plants ...
Morning Routine.
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I suppose most of us live by 'routine'; I know I certainly do.
I am the current guardian of 'The Family Clock'. Made for the family in
1735, it has rem...
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN UP TO:
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We were lucky with the walk on Monday which was on the Boardwalk at A.H.
Reed Park
Tuesday, Doug went back to his Art Class for the first time since his...
Forgot
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Lately my memory has been pretty bad.
Not sure if it’s fibro fog, having too much on my mind or just getting
older
Yesterday morning I put a load of my ...
Grey, grey and more grey
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Photo taken in Mount Maunganui 5 years ago
Our skies here in Greymouth seem to be never ending grey at the moment.
Winter officially begins on 1st June...
Springtime Balloons
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The Balloon Flowers are gracing us with their prolific blooms.
Also known as the Chinese Bellflower, they are a herbaceous perennial
native to eastern Ru...
Green
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Green is the predominant colour around here - even the water reflects green.
Black seems to be the fashion du jour for new houses here. (Yuck!)
Neve...
Friday morning thoughts
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A while ago, one of my very good friends here in Blogland asked me how my
English, which was so bad at first, improved so much. I told him that I
learn ...
jailhouse accommodations
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Our last night in Christchurch in 2016 was spent in the Jailhouse
Accommodations at the locally converted jail. Click here for their website.
Being a b...
Books 4-8
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Double Agent by Jack Mars
At the outset of the Cold War, in the ruins of postwar Europe, rookie CIA
Agent Tyler Wolf must navigate a precarious partners...
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 ...
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...
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...
Now, stop it, just stop it Linda!
ReplyDeleteFrom a cool, wet and windy place in the far north .....
It's blowing a gale where we are now . But not cool or wet. Sorry 😐
Delete😎 It's alright for some. Imagine being able to go the beach everyday and the sun is always shining?
ReplyDeleteThe sun is shining that's for sure. Thank goodness it hasn't got that fierce heat it had a few weeks ago. The water is cool . But not too cool
DeleteSaronic Gulf has so much to recommend it in any season.
ReplyDeleteI love those winter sands where no foot has trodden .
DeleteBlue skies even in winter.
ReplyDeleteThere is just something about a deserted beach. Bliss
Blue skies and a still blue sea. Peaceful
DeleteIt looks so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteIn winter it is. Summer it's just noisy
DeleteEmpty beaches are my idea of heaven.
ReplyDeleteMine too !!
DeleteBeautiful beach photos.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice Sandy beach. Not many on the island. Some are stoney
DeleteOur beach here will now be very different from a couple of weeks ago. Fur coats instead of bikinis.
ReplyDeleteIt should be warm enough for short sleeves till November here
DeleteBeautiful and serene.
ReplyDelete~Jo
The winter beaches are lovely . Summer beaches are full of life
DeleteYou're so fortunate to live so near, it's lovely feeling the sand between the toes.
ReplyDeleteAnd dip toes in the water, no matter how cold
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