Running Dogs
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Skills assessment today.
An important day, because if we fail this we’re off the course.
Our counselling scenario is videoed and assessed by our tutor and a...
Bravado
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The rumble of RAF fighters rolls across the estuary from the air base. This
level of activity is a sign that the Russians must be creating some form of...
L'église St-Julien de Brioude en Auvergne
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The St-Julien church in Brioude (pop. 6,500), just an hour's drive south
of the city of Clermont-Ferrand (pop. 150,000), is classified as a
basilica. That...
DIY
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There's a short flight of communal steps up to our row of four bijou
town-houses, on either side of which are some metal rails. I've been
threatening to...
A Small Black Book
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Lying on a shelf, a small black book, unopened in the last couple of
years. Time to remedy that.
No photograph, because it really is just a small blac...
ANOTHER DAY OF CUTTING OUT
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*Well, it looks like another nice day out there.*
*Shame really, cos I'm gunna be inside cutting out bowl cosy's and batting
all day.*
*But, it won't...
Cobden Observation Post
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We've been living in Greymouth nearly 2 years now and we finally got to
complete this walk to the Cobden WW2 Observation Post. It took about 20
minute...
Bank Holiday Carboot Antiques Hunt.
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It's a Bank Holiday here in Ireland giving everyone a day off after Saint
Patrick's Day.
The weather forecast was not good but we still got up earlier a...
Weekend Roundup
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Last night's 'Countryfile' weather forecast showed a little map that
recorded that our part of the country has enjoyed 110% of the average March
rainfall...
Back Again
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It's been a while since I've posted. We were away again for a couple of
weeks. Since I am such a homebody, I am very happy to be back in my own
home, in...
Continuum
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Just now I have done one of the constraint writing exercises which is the
first part of our work this week. It may seem daft but I think to actually
do...
Easy Sunday mornings
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Spending time with the feathered family
So much has happened here lately. A couple of shocks. Stating with the
alpaca. It hit me harder than I tho...
The Growing Season
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The new spring grass is growing at a phenomenal rate, I suspect it has
something to do with all of the rain that fell throughout the months of
February a...
False spring is over.....
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I took this photo of a ranunculus I bought a few days before. They are
such beautiful flowers ~ so delicate and brightly colored. I don't know
how lo...
Yesterday
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It was Mother's Day yesterday, or Mothering Sunday as some call it and
originates from when women in service (maids and servants working in big
houses) w...
thoughts
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What to write about now? Should I write at all or stop and stay with the
thoughts in my head?
These are such complicated days and probably some kind of ...
Patea Dam parking lot
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Hubby has taken me to see so many places since I arrived here almost 18
years ago! It was a bit overwhelming at first and I asked sooooo many
questions! ...
Books 5-6
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The Innocent by Posie Graeme-Evans
The year is 1450, a dangerous time in medieval Britain. Civil unrest is at
its peak and the legitimacy of the royal ...
Going Into Recess
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Have you ever felt that sometimes your life has turned a corner? Or, as my
uncle used to say, started a new chapter in the book of your life?
After r...
Deaths of John and Emily Webster
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In Pakanae Cemetery is this grave belonging to Mrs Emily Webster (nee
Russell), wife of John Webster, born 1829 in Kohukohu and married in 1855.
Her husb...
BUSY TIME OF YEAR
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Well, we are always busy but at the moment it seems more so.
It has been hot and dry so watering every day. The tomatoes, in
particular, have done re...
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 ...
Mincemeat and Quince
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The days are getting shorter and the trees are beginning to shed their
leaves. The quince tree has done magnificently this year. The fruit
enormous a...
I write. I create. I observe and record my life, after 40 years, in Greece. I love to create either with my handy craft, cooking or writing. Freeform always. Keep it simple, keep the interest, make it useful. I write about my garden sometimes, my grandchildren and the different culture and traditions. My New Zealand up bringing was so different from this way of life that I do truly feel like an alien at times. Greece is home but so is my kiwi 'homeland'. I am a citizen of both and an alien in both.