Japanese Winter Onions Pizza.
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I bet you can't get Senshyu winter onion pizzas in Domino's?
You can if you live at our humble abode in the countryside next to the next
sea:
Winter oni...
Nature's Living Lanterns
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We enjoyed sitting on the porch in the cooler evening air last night,
discussing our day, and our plans for the upcoming week ahead.
In the darkness of t...
Kitchen Wall Gift and a mouse with attitude
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At lunchtime I found a card and a gift from a *Going Gently *fan on the
kitchen wall next to the lane.
What fun
*Robyn *( with hubby in tow) should hav...
Calm seas and gentle breezes.
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Still no rain although there's a scattering of high cloud and a gentle
breeze from the East. The farmers irrigation system is hard at work in the
potato...
Biba, Biba.
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Anyone of around my age or a tad younger (who lived in London in the late
60's and early 70's) would know not only know the clothes shop 'Biba', but
a...
TUESDAY - PRE-SETTLEMENT VIEWINGS
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*Today we have two important things to do.*
*1. We go to have the final, pre-settlement viewing of our new home.*
*That's when we get to make sure no...
TODAY'S WALK
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Last night we had heavy rain and thunderstorm watches and wondered whether
we would be having the Parkinson walk this morning. Anyway, the day dawned
fi...
The last weeks of Autumn
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Photos taken at the edge of the town square in Greymouth with the Left Bank
Art Gallery in the building on the left.
And this one of the main road th...
Beat the Rain - just.
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Photos loaded in reverse order. We aren't dismantling it again.
Supervisor guarding the outdoor kitchen
Iron is a bit short over the verandah. I can ge...
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...
We get amazing sunsets looking at our bay like your photo. Wish I could paint them.
ReplyDeleteMy granddaughter caught the sun just in the right position
DeleteLove spectacular sunsets. Sunrises too.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty
We don't see these sunsets up in the hills. It's lovely that she took a photo and sent it
DeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteIt's stunning
DeleteYou live in a beautiful part of the world.
ReplyDeleteYes, you're right. But you live in a beautiful part of the world too
DeleteWe look out over rain clouds, accompanied by the sound of a raging sea.
ReplyDeleteThese last few days have been cold but sunny. Rain today then 18o and sunny till after Xmas.
ReplyDeleteSome people have all the luck. Right place Right time!
ReplyDeleteAnd with phone charged and in hand!
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