Siberia in Norfolk
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Today has been very typical Norfolk winter weather in February - it feels
like standing in the middle of Siberia wind.
I quite enjoy it and after all I ...
COUPLE OF THINGS TO DO
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*ANOTHER hot 'n' sticky day ahead ... luckily we don't have too much on our
agenda.*
*I'm going out to Tis The Season, in Matangi first thing to get s...
Flight Centre
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One from Auckland city near Karangahape Road. Flight Centre - one of the
places here that people can book flights through but has anyone actually
done J...
Tarts’ knickers
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This week has been somewhat strange.
Emotionally I’ve been up and down like a tart’s knickers.
I’m not stressing over the diabetes.
It’s just been a very ...
Cosy, cosy, cosy.
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She'd phoned to say that she'd landed at Gatwick, and I was expecting Lady
M at any moment, so I lit a cosy fire.
Having been out in Thailand for 3 week...
Meh
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Modern phones are useful, and it is possible to blog from them - but it's
not a relaxing way to compose a post. Three weeks or so ago I moved into my
car...
Some quotes never go out of fashion.
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The sunrise highlights a quotation on an old courtyard wall. 'The Font'
informs me its a quote from Tennyson. I pretend to know this although to be
entir...
Rah-rah-rah raclette
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I went out to the supermarket the other day — it had been a while — and
bought quite a few packages of what in the U.S. we call "cold cuts" —
salt-cured ...
LOG SPLITTING AND BUSH WALK
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It was March last year when someone set fire to the Cypress tree in the
park behind us.
We ended up with about half a dozen large logs that have been dr...
Leek And Potato Soup And Irish Soda Bread.
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I harvested two of our homegrown leeks today.
J made some leek and potato soup and made a loaf of bread.
I was in the garden going through my hundreds ...
February Days
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Our days have been filled with glorious sunshine.
The daffodils are shooting up from the ground, offering the promise of
spring.
I tidied around the p...
A long week
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I’ve been MIA as this week we have been at the hospital in palliative care
My father was in lots of pain and it took a few days to get that under
contr...
4 more weeks to go.......
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This is a photo of the dental offices new building.
I am working during their move. I thought it would be "fun". I haven't
been this wrong in quite...
Our nights
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These are the chocolate eggs I bought today at the little store here that
has everything. I'll put every two eggs in a bag, and I hope I don't forget
the...
Saturday Night Fun-Not!!
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I'd been having weird pains in my collarbone and jaw in the early evening.
About 10pm things kind of sky rocketed. I couldn't get a deep breath, my
u...
RIP Mr John Kerr
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REHIA SETTLER DROWNED - Auckland Star Volume 55, Issue 82, 5 April 1924,
Page 11
(Back in 1924 there was a terrible flood in Dargaville.) So far there ha...
December 23, 2024
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This will be a great big post with probably not another one for a few
weeks, so get comfy…
It took about three to four weeks for the plague to leave ...
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...
I wish you the same, Linda. Here, despite everything, the weather is wonderful and the sun is shining.
ReplyDeleteHave a great Christmas Linda.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful Greek Christmas.
ReplyDeleteWishing you all a very merry Christmas. Enjoy spending time with the ones you love
ReplyDeleteThank you. Being on a dream island, I'm sure your Christmas was perfect.
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