At Long Last, December 4, 2025
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Realizing I've been absent from blogging for months now, I thought I
should show proof of life. This morning, here in Ontario, I am sitting with
my Sant...
Christmas song #1
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You couldn't imagine a more beautiful sunrise if you tried. Faced with such
a fiery display the local dog walkers seem loathe to leave the beach.
That's ...
Run-off
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Stormy weather is predicted for today — and the rest of the week. I hope it
won't be anything like the weather we were having on December 04, 2009.
Here ar...
Christmas 1998
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I wrote this post in my head a few days ago.
Reminded by an old photo of a group of smiling nurses grouped around a man
in a wheelchair.
When I was a ...
Logic!
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I think I missed my true vocation as a 'Project Manager'.
We've had pipe-laying road works in the road behind the church since
September (although it ...
Learning
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I promised a post on my EPP project
I watched a video on how to create the individual pieces to be sown
together
BUT
I didn’t go back to see how ...
Bamboo Tiger
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Photo taken at K'Road - Auckland 2024
Seems like a strange name for a bar. This particular part of Auckland
Central is a vibrant place full of ethnic b...
STEW HOME LATER ON TODAY, AND MOSAICS AGAIN
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*Stew is due home from Taupo mid afternoon.*
*Did I miss his snoring.... NO.*
*Did I miss him moaning and groaning about his knee .... NO.*
*But Darl...
Week Plus
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Golly where does the time go? Last Tuesday vanished somehow after
receiving a call from my my late father's younger brother. Uncle N and
Aunty B live i...
Making A Start
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The Thanksgiving dishes have been returned to the cupboard for yet another
year and today I made a start on the Christmas decorating.
A little here, a li...
Winter is coming!......
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I suppose otters don't feel the cold so much. However, being totally
adorable takes you a long way....
I was sick the Monday before Thanksgiving wi...
Too much excitement
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Our days are usually very quiet and, frankly rather dull. But I don't mind
at all, really. Some days require me to venture outside--to the doctor's
offi...
Books 20-24
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Past Transgressions by Dave Sinclair
Retired spy. Trained killing machine. Pacifist.
Retired MI6 spy Mason Nash moved to a sleepy English town so he cou...
Far from here
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Facebook sends me videos of people filming in Ukraine. I don't know why,
but I click follow on every one of them because it interests me a lot. The
vide...
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...
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...
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