MONDAY IN AUSTRALIA
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*Today is the start of a busy week for the family here.*
*Lots of appointments, getting kids to and from school, new routines etc.*
*My niece Rowena a...
GRUPO TALÍA
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The lisping choir at full lisp.
Yesterday we raised over £1400.00
Money that will be used towards the upkeep of our lovely hall
A Hall that has been frien...
Repurposed Planters.
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I spotted these planters outside a supermarket the other day in Kerry:
Sheep or calf nuts troughs looking elegant and filled with seasonal bedding
plan...
Valençay scenes and views
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We're having a quiet Sunday here in France. Yesterday was the biggest
departure day for people leaving the north, including Paris, and heading
south for th...
The murdered goldfish.
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The Irish lady who writes children books is out walking her labrador. She
stops to tell us that the fancy interior design store in town has been
broken i...
My boys.
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If anyone had asked if I like surprises or not, I would probably have sad
"Not".
However, it came as an extremely PLEASANT surprise that when Wills and ...
SIXTY YEARS
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It is sixty years since I arrived in Auckland. I was working in
Knightsbridge and after talking to someone who was emigrating I booked my
passage. Did...
The Final Chapter!
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Continuing on from the last installment!
April 29th I had to go in for a review of the tests I had had so far. I
saw a different Internal Medicine do...
Catherine
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This is a photo of my late grandmother on my mother's side. Catherine Janet
de Silva (nee Dunlop) born 1916 was 3/4 Scottish and 1/4 Irish. I have many ...
August Days
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" The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the
live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in
its...
August 1, 2025 (gardens and a birding app)
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It's a new month and lots has been accomplished. I also have a free app
that I'm enjoying right now, and if you are a bird lover/enthusiast, you
will lo...
Ana day
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Ana was very helpful today. Helping grandma choose colours. I got stories
with each one she took out to look at.
I even was informed about the colours ne...
Normal life
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Everything is so relative. Missiles from Yemen are already less scary,
after the missiles from Iran that killed and destroyed thousands of homes
just by...
I'm already tired of summer......
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Lots of Datura plants in the Sandia foothills. Pretty but very poisonous.
As you can see there are a lot of blooms, so there's always a show when we
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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...
Now, stop it, just stop it Linda!
ReplyDeleteFrom a cool, wet and windy place in the far north .....
It's blowing a gale where we are now . But not cool or wet. Sorry 😐
Delete😎 It's alright for some. Imagine being able to go the beach everyday and the sun is always shining?
ReplyDeleteThe sun is shining that's for sure. Thank goodness it hasn't got that fierce heat it had a few weeks ago. The water is cool . But not too cool
DeleteSaronic Gulf has so much to recommend it in any season.
ReplyDeleteI love those winter sands where no foot has trodden .
DeleteBlue skies even in winter.
ReplyDeleteThere is just something about a deserted beach. Bliss
Blue skies and a still blue sea. Peaceful
DeleteIt looks so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteIn winter it is. Summer it's just noisy
DeleteEmpty beaches are my idea of heaven.
ReplyDeleteMine too !!
DeleteBeautiful beach photos.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice Sandy beach. Not many on the island. Some are stoney
DeleteOur beach here will now be very different from a couple of weeks ago. Fur coats instead of bikinis.
ReplyDeleteIt should be warm enough for short sleeves till November here
DeleteBeautiful and serene.
ReplyDelete~Jo
The winter beaches are lovely . Summer beaches are full of life
DeleteYou're so fortunate to live so near, it's lovely feeling the sand between the toes.
ReplyDeleteAnd dip toes in the water, no matter how cold
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