HERE WE GO AGAIN, STORMY WEATHER MARKET
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*MEH... I don't feel like today AT. ALL.*
*I haven't even bothered to look out the window yet, cos I know it's not
going to be good. Well, if it's n...
Nature in Blue
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I'm really late for Friday linky with Rosie over at LLB but this bright
colour plant has been lurking in my photos for a couple of weeks - real
blues are...
What a week
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What a week that was. The phrase ' I can have Usha take a look at it '
enters the popular lexicon. We overhear two exceedingly pretty valley girls
in the...
Cooking with olives
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Earlier this week, I bought a pork tenderloin roast over at Intermarché. It
was for sale at a good price. I brought it home not knowing what I was
going t...
Done done done
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If your involved with children and pre teens you will know that’s part of a
song from K-pop demon hunters it’s not as scary as it sounds
we have watch t...
The Sketch Show - I Can't Believe it's....
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Very rarely do I see a comedy sketch that I really would loved to have
written myself; but this is one!
Does comedy get any better than this? I laughed my...
St Catherine's Okaihau
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This is the second church in the small town of Okaihau in the far north. In
early 1874 a Captain Burleigh applied to the Anglican Church Missionary
So...
FAIRYTALE - ALEXANDER RYBAK - TALÍA GROUP
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I was in the audience for this performance …a *tour de force *for the
violin section.
It’s optimistic and bright and mirrors today’s mood.
Yesterday I rea...
Quince, Life, and Puppy Dog Tales
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The season of mellow mists inevitably means that I suddenly have a deep
desire to store food in the form of jams, pickles and syrups. It also
means that...
Autumn Muskiness
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We had our first real taste of Autumn weather last night, tonight down in
the mid forties and snugly blankets will once again return to the beds.
The sou...
:-( Watching Tsitsipas lose to Sinner...
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What an honor for Stephanos to be picked to participate in the 6 Kings
Slam, and what a drag to have to play Sinner in the first round. He's a
great p...
A Month's Recycling.
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A car full of dog food cans, packaging and glass bottles.
Number 2 son visited down here in his new to him 7 seater car and suggested
I might want to ...
Yom Kippur
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The coverage of the murder of Jews in the synagogue in Manchester today,
on Yom Kippur on Sky News is a bit surprising to me.
They've been talking about...
Time Flies!
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This is what was on our lawn yesterday morning when we got up!!
This was all arranged by our GD Kelsey and her mom, our DIL Rhonda. It was
all set up b...
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 ...
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...