Summer Days
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The summer heat has kicked in.
Hot and humid days, and evenings most often filled with a thunderstorm or
two, cooling the night air.
Parents have begun s...
Quick - before it rains again
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Rain stopped during the night. The forecast says rain again Monday (all the
way through to and including next Saturday). Yesterday, suffering cabin
fever...
Chock-a-block.
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A not so good dinner. We were going to eat in the hotel but at the last
minute decide to try a place that's had 'rave' reviews. This was a mistake
and th...
Two photos of the Château de Saint-Aignan
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Above, a view of the church and the château at Saint-Aignan in the
Loir-et-Cher. I took the photo in July 2004, about a year after we came to
live here. O...
Single Mom DEMANDS Disabled Spot
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We've all come across people like this, or have heard about their
existence, but this one has to win FIRST PRIZE. I actually think she was
being serious.
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You Couldn’t Make It Up
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The mass of staff and trucks trying to sort out our new plane
Our *Iberian *jet never left Madrid
We sat on it for a bloody age until an engineer was cal...
PUZZLED
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*Yesterday I was sorting through the three big boxes of plastics, and not
often used kitchen gadgets. And I was like, where the hell are all our
plas...
ANZ
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One of the banks in Greymouth - ANZ meaning Australia New Zealand, quite
popular but not mine. Photo taken along Mackay Street on a weekday morning
wh...
A Posh Thistle Perennial Growing In The Veg Plot.
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I sowed Globe Artichoke seeds last year and I got florets in the first
year.
They are perennials and now more artichokes have appeared:
A posh Thistle...
Full house
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Ana arrived early when it’s was still very cold and dark.
She knows grandma will not only have the fire going, she will also have the
central heating on a...
CRAZY PAVING
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Doug thought that the old drive would be broken up for removal but, when
he noticed that they were cutting it into squares he asked them to leave
some. ...
Mykonos....
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If I had a dollar (or a euro) for each church we saw on our travels through
Greece, I may have been able to cover half of the cost of the entire trip!
T...
It's July!
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It is now the second day of July and we've had some lovely hot days as
well as some big rains. This year I planted my vegetable garden in rows,
instead ...
Another day
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In recent days, we have been 30 adults in the neighborhood shelter and 15
children, the oldest of whom is 8 years old and the youngest is a
one-month-ol...
It sucks getting old
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I have spent the largest portion of my life healthy and unconcerned about
any problems related to my health. At 73, I thought I was doing quite well,
bu...
Books 4-8
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Double Agent by Jack Mars
At the outset of the Cold War, in the ruins of postwar Europe, rookie CIA
Agent Tyler Wolf must navigate a precarious partners...
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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