It’s always the way. Fix one leak and it just puts pressure on another part of the pipe. Ideally it all needs replacing but governments just don’t think that way It really sounds like Greece in your video.
Simnel cake
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The battle with the insurance company over our weather aborted trip to
Madeira continues. They promise to 'have made a judgement ' within ten
working day...
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One day I want to go over to the Saint-Aignan train station, just three or
four miles from our house, and take to train to Bourges, a small city with
a lon...
Muckle Flugga
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The UK has some pretty rustic outposts, as well as a few very
sophisticated, cosier locations.
One of the former (a lump of offshore rock, with a ligh...
I AM GOING TO BE A LAZY TART TODAY
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*As I mentioned late yesterday, I'm having a totally lazy day today.*
*There will be no housework.*
*No to'ing and fro'ing.*
*Nothing I don't feel lik...
Bryn Williams
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*Darling what an absolutely wonderful idea*
*Chic Eleanor* was excited, because we organised brunch at *Bryn Williams’s
*new restaurant at *Theatre Clwy...
Fuel crisis
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Today Ana and her parents had an appointment at the school down the road
from us.
It’s the school her daddy and aunt went too. And hopefully she will s...
BETTER DAY
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We awoke to a heavy mist which has cleared to a beautiful sunny day. 26
degrees. this is the main highway (State Highway One that runs from the top
to b...
Boundary
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Previous owners of the neighbouring property played fast and loose with the
boundaries and put up a fence that, far from straight, strayed over 2
metres ...
The scent of wisteria.....
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I have never seen my wisteria so full of blooms! I keep the windows and
back door open so that the scent will waft in, and it's the best freakin
air fre...
Hello Spring
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Hello Spring, we've been waiting for you..... your healing sunshine is
desperately needed.
The Robins have returned, a sure sign that you have arrived....
Fears
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By midnight I was already tired but I was debating whether to go to sleep.
According to my calculations, which are not based on anything logical, only
m...
Awatuna Stores Ltd
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This little closed-up store, just down the road from where I live now,
caught my attention very early in my Taranaki adventures. It is, like so
many aban...
Books 31-36
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Tango one by Stephen Leather
In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at
the Metropolitan Police's training centre at H...
It's a bit COLD
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I thought I would quickly pop back here for an update. We are having
another good old fashioned winter again. LOTS of snow in "southwestern
Ontario" wit...
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...
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...
Break out the Ark, quick!
ReplyDeleteI'm not saving those dang goats though. They're loving their new water sources. I can smell em before I see em.
Deleteoh no hope they fix it, what a waste of water though.
ReplyDeleteHuge waste!
DeleteIt’s always the way. Fix one leak and it just puts pressure on another part of the pipe. Ideally it all needs replacing but governments just don’t think that way
ReplyDeleteIt really sounds like Greece in your video.
It's a real Greek drama lol
DeleteIt's a real Greek drama lol
DeleteOh dear!!
ReplyDeleteOh dear. Again
DeleteSometimes it happens here too. very similar. That's probably how it is in rural Mediterranean areas.
ReplyDeleteWe live in very similar environments Yael
Deleteooops! run and hide.
ReplyDeleteYou should see it today. It's a geyser. Without the sulphur lol. So far
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