Sugar
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Photo taken at one of my favourite cafes in town. I meet up with friends
usually on Wednesdays every 2 to 3 weeks to catch up with them. This is a
pop...
SATURDAY - TAMAHERE IN MAY
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*It's freakin' early as... and we are getting ready to head off to
Tamahere.*
*This is the last market we have before we move.*
*I feel like I have bee...
Heavy Jazz.
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I found a new version of 'Paranoid' by a band called Jazz Sabbath.
The pianist is Adam Wakeman (son of Rick who I saw play keyboards with his
dad) and t...
Friday morning thoughts
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A while ago, one of my very good friends here in Blogland asked me how my
English, which was so bad at first, improved so much. I told him that I
learn ...
TGIF
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Today Ana was much better
We had to watch lots of pepper pig
And frozen TWICE
She’s studying the DVD cover.
She’s learning the song.
You’d think she ...
On the train
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Down to Edinburgh for the quarterly appointment with the jovial eye surgeon
and a trip to the tailors to be measured for a replacement dinner jacket.
The...
Crevettes !
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Walt came home from the market in Selles-sur-Cher yesterday morning with a
kilogram of fresh — never frozen — raw shrimp. This is a first for us in
France,...
THE ROLY POLYS - Tap Dance "Anything Goes"
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Can you believe it. Once upon a time we were allowed to laugh at
'Mother-in-Law' jokes, and overweight female dancers of a 'certain age'.
These days there...
Scully
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Hi - I'm Scully.
I live at 2714.
My family go to work and school during the day and I get bored and lonely.
I used to hang out with the arthritic lab...
ONE WEEK ON
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Yes, it is a week since Doug had his accident. He had his third nurse
appointment today, a different nurse this time and she was very thorough.
He has ...
Time Marches On
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We've been blessed with glorious weather these past few days, sunshine and
low-humidity, the two together, are rare as hen's teeth in these southern
part...
jailhouse accommodations
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Our last night in Christchurch in 2016 was spent in the Jailhouse
Accommodations at the locally converted jail. Click here for their website.
Being a b...
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 ...
Blessed Pascha ~ Happy Easter!
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Our kouvouklion this year. We had to do it after one service and hurry up
to finish before the next one began. We were vacuuming and sweeping as
peop...
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...
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...
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...
We get amazing sunsets looking at our bay like your photo. Wish I could paint them.
ReplyDeleteMy granddaughter caught the sun just in the right position
DeleteLove spectacular sunsets. Sunrises too.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty
We don't see these sunsets up in the hills. It's lovely that she took a photo and sent it
DeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteIt's stunning
DeleteYou live in a beautiful part of the world.
ReplyDeleteYes, you're right. But you live in a beautiful part of the world too
DeleteWe look out over rain clouds, accompanied by the sound of a raging sea.
ReplyDeleteThese last few days have been cold but sunny. Rain today then 18o and sunny till after Xmas.
ReplyDeleteSome people have all the luck. Right place Right time!
ReplyDeleteAnd with phone charged and in hand!
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