"Am I Turning Into Eric Olthwaite?"
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I bought this spade at the carboot sale on Sunday;
A really "interesting" new spade
In Ingerland or Blighty they call this spade/shovel a " Grafter" i...
Dr Kildare
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I am having a home day today because I need to catch up a bit on a few
things. I have just sent my five poems to the class workshop group so
first thin...
Swallows arrive, youngsters break the rules.
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Tuesday early evening. We set up a table in the garden , open a bottle of
Pomerol and prepare to enjoy the sunset over the bay. No sooner are we
settled ...
Lentils for lunch
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We've had lentils for lunch twice this week. Do you like them? I don't
think Americans eat lentils as much as French people do. I read somewhere
that the...
Anarchy in the UK.
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In about 1965 I attended an 'Anarchist Meeting' in a room above a Pub'
behind The National Gallery. I had been walking through Trafalgar Square
with a ...
BREAKING GROUND?
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*Yesterday, while at the supermarket, I couldn't help but notice something
going on opposite Woolworths, Te Rapa.*
*ABOVE: For the past few years, th...
Post Presentation Ice Cream
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Ive given two presentations today and due to the nervous energy in the air
Iso need a break. so im in Parisellas cafe on the beach and like one crazy
mad b...
Archaeology
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Uncovered while shifting the slash heaps - we believe this to be the
fossilized thigh bone of the rare *fidofoodus masticus.*
For publicity purposes and ...
Family time
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So last week we had my parents visiting from Northland - we haven't seen
them since my son's wedding last November when we were in Auckland so we
spen...
WHAT A DAY
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Very dark this morning at 6 a.m. and we both turned over and didn't wake
again till 7 a.m. so a bit later than usual at the Growers' Market. First
stop ...
End of the week
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Today Ana was telling me all about her daddy and how he was sick at home.
she did seem concerned about her dad. I told her he will get better with
rest a...
Baking and flowers and baking......
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Our Philoptokos chapter bakes koulouria, and dyes eggs for sale before
Pascha. Last Saturday we baked 720 (or so) koulouria ~ we sell those by
the doz...
New morning
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I really love the writer Natalia Ginzburg, born in Palermo in 1916, died
in 1991. I have read every book of hers that has been translated into
Hebrew.
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Sunday, February 23,2025
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Here are some pictures taken today. I finally got out for a much needed
walk around the little village. There are now vertical snow walls sliced
o...
Books 1-3
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Captured Lies by Maggie Thom
She was kidnapped not once but twice and now someone wants her dead because
of it....
Her life was a lie!
Bailey knew her ...
Charlotte Alexander
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Charlotte Harata Hone Rameka Alexander was born in 1887 at Waimate North
and passed away at Rawene on 14th October 1933, now resting at St
Catherine's Ce...
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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