I laughed out loud. So funny, and still giggling as I type this comment. Safe Christmas to you and your family. Regards Aussie reader from Western Australia.
Saturday Stitches - Yet More Hats
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In a race against time I have been knitting grandchildren hats before Mr B
flies out to return to UK on Monday. Why did we not think of that earlier?
Perha...
Weekend update
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Friday the girls arrived, both grandma and grandpa were both still asleep.
I heard the car door slam shut and jumped up.
It didn’t matter. Grandpa was ...
Deeply reassuring.
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It's the RSPB's annual golden plover census and bird watchers from far and
wide have been out and about counting our local population. The first
twitcher...
ATT.
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Just in case you are unaware of this wonderful, stand-by, store-cupboard,
Pasta dish, let me tell you all about it.
It is known here as ATT, which stan...
Dalmation Beans
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At the Growers' Market yesterday I noticed some pots of Dalmation Beans.
We already have a variety of different beans (more about that later) but I
was...
Hill House
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Adapted from *Shirley Jacksons best seller *and the 1963 film version *The
Haunting, The Haunting Of Hill House *is a suitably spooky and rather
chilli...
A QUIET SUNDAY AHEAD
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*Stew and I will be having a relatively quiet day today.*
*First up we will unload the car, something we didn't do yesterday when we
got home from mar...
Long-Awaited
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Our trusty weatherman has predicted we'll be finally experiencing some
Fall-like weather this week.
No more of the ninety degree days, but temperatures...
The world is truly crazy.....
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We had a really fun and relaxing 3 day getaway, but before I get into
that, I need to express the anger and fear we experienced when driving
home. Disc...
Small steps
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I'm back. It was hard for me here for a long time. I walked carefully. I
didn't know who hated me and who didn't. Who was blaming me for all the
things ...
Coping
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Sorry to have been so quiet for so long. I'm not sure what I'm going to do
with my blog. I need to practice posting pictures again. Blogger is a
fairly ...
Issues with Blogger
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I can’t be the only one who has realized this but I sometimes like to put
it out there and see if others want to add anything. My reading list has
been ...
it's time to go
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I have had a lot of fun letting you know how I feel about my new home of
New Zealand. I hope you have enjoyed my journey, too.
My health is not the best...
Multi Tasking
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There was a storm this afternoon - thunder, lightening, very, very
frightening. Unable to get outside to do any gardening I decided to use
the time to d...
Books 1-7
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Bloody River Blues by Jeffery Deaver
Well, that wasn't a good start to the year! I read 125 pages (which was
more than a third of the book) and I just c...
Xmas decorations
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Greymouth has 3 main streets in town. On the way home from work at night
I've been stopping to take photos of some of the shop window decorations.
It'...
A Birthday Present.
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I reached the grand old age of 62 last Friday. Like that great English
folk singer Sandy Denny once sang:
"Who knows where the time goes?"
I received ...
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...
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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ReplyDeleteLol, that is too funny!
ReplyDeleteHa,ha. It's very good LA.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think I’ve seen that ‘complication’ before. Equal opportunity - wonder how things would be if that had been the way
ReplyDeleteLovely - gave me a giggle.
ReplyDeleteLove it!!
ReplyDeleteLove this- thanks laughs are in short supply this year !!!
ReplyDeleteI laughed out loud. So funny, and still giggling as I type this comment. Safe Christmas to you and your family. Regards
ReplyDeleteAussie reader from Western Australia.
Surely, that wouldn't have been allowed!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove this, made me smile.
ReplyDeleteBriony
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Ohhhhhh, this is hysterical!!!!!!!!!!!!
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