Nature Friday - Roots
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Someone probably scraped these with an earthmover or a slasher/mower. Isn't
it amazing how they heal and produce such colour in the callus material
th...
Food and Choir
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At dawn *Ruth *went foraging in the relative cool ( 32 degrees), she found *The
San Miguel Market, *where we ventured out for breakfast at 10 am. The food ...
LET IT RAIN
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*The day I've been waiting for ... my bathroom gets some colour. Did I
tell you what colour I chose?*
*MIGHT BE PALE BLUE. Like seriously, is anyone...
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...
Onion Breakfast For The 🐖 🐖 Pigs.
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I was weeding my raised beds the other morning and I decided to make room
for the veg plants we bought the other day from a garden centre:
I also bought ...
Sweet Land Of Liberty
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“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so
it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its
life-g...
The chill is back
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Yesterday we cooled down a little, but by afternoon humidity started
building. It was muggy, but the humidity didn't last too long. This
morning, the ai...
Peaceful for some, hectic for others.
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A helicopter flew into the local army base last night. It must have been
one of those large twin rotor types with blades that make that deep
'thwump-di-...
White skies.
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We've been back in France for just over two weeks, and today (yesterday)
is/was our first cloudy day. We didn't see the sun all day. However, it was
st...
Fog/Simple Pleasures #2
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Last year in November while we were in Auckland we were on our way to visit
B's sister and her husband. We drove past Kawakawa Bay, which in Summer is ...
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 ...
Bitter cold
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It’s cold and very wet. We have not had such wintery weather for a long
time.
We really needed the rain
It was a perfect day for working on a large q...
FINISHED DRIVE
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It is now eight days since the concreters finished and we are able to use
on the drive. Our Toyota Spade has been living next door while the work
has be...
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...
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ReplyDeleteIt is the perfect combo. Kali oraxie
ReplyDeleteThat's what he says !
DeleteI was watching a Rick Stein programme where they boiled Octopus for just 3 minutes. He said it was very tender. I always thought it took hours!
ReplyDeleteNo way it would be tender after 3 minutes!!
DeleteIt was on his programme about Palermo. One of the Weekend Breaks series.
DeleteI will look for it on youtube. Maybe it was boiled first for an hour or so and just presented as 3 minutes. It would have been very chewy I'm sure
DeleteI haven't had ouzo in years, it was nice.
ReplyDeleteBetter if you drink it on a Greek island!!
DeleteSeems perfect to me.
ReplyDeleteHe sure thinks it's perfect
DeleteLooks like a happy man there
ReplyDeleteVery happy. As Angela said, it's the perfect combo...for him
DeleteHe's a sucker for octopus then?
ReplyDeleteGood one JC 😅😅
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ReplyDelete😀😀
DeleteHe looks happy :)
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