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28 February 2010

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

Inspiration for a new week! Part of the very lovely Cate’s Sunday Share at Moments of Whimsy!

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Tsunami warning

28 February 2010

3.30am  Sometime in 2006 Auckland

What big wave?

The quiet of the night in my St Heliers home is disturbed by the digital nagging of the telephone. At first I ignored it. As if it were a mosquito. Then I somnabulistically incorporated it into a dream. Finally when it didn’t bloody stop, I lazily reached over to answer the phone.

‘Hello’ I croaked in a voice barbed with red wine and late night.

A familiar Aussie twang answered.  Disgustingly upbeat.

It was like being woken by Pollyanna on ecstasy.

‘Vic, it’s your Mum’  Read more... (419 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

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Vegemitevix’s 10 More things to see in New Zealand

26 February 2010

After extolling the virtues off-the-beaten track in the North Island, I’m going to tackle the South Island, – or ‘the Main Land’ as the South Islanders would have you believe! (Don’t listen to them they’re high on fresh air!)

Otago University - http://www.flickr.com/photos/komantamphotography/2575793207/sizes/s/

1/Dunedin – Perhaps an unlikely choice as most visitors head to the larger city Christchurch, but I love the Edinburgh of the South, and besides I went to University there so I have happy memories of the place albeit through student-tinted glasses. The story goes that Dunedin was actually mapped out on paper sight-unseen, based on the good city of Edinburgh.  Read more... (1274 words, 8 images, estimated 5:06 mins reading time)

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I Think I Can

25 February 2010

Every weekday morning after shooing the family off to school and work I come back into my bedroom and sit here at my desk, and look out the window past the brick houses to the school playing fields and the clouds, and I look for inspiration. Sometimes I pray for help. I look up to the sky and hope to see ideas for new business in the clouds, and inspirational writing ideas hanging off the branches of the leafless trees.  Read more... (923 words, 2 images, estimated 3:42 mins reading time)

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Just Peachy!

24 February 2010

I received the test results from the local surgery today.

They were surprising, worrying, and just peachy all at once.

Apparently my liver function is normal. Surprising why you consider my frequent appreciation of the fermented grape perhaps but good news nevertheless.

I have no errant white cells which bodes well for lack of cancerous thingame’s.

My thyroid function is normal. Which on the surface appears to be good news, but when you consider that if it were abnormal it would easily explain the weight gain (rather than the wine, the Pavlova, the mince pies and the turkey and ham of Christmas…) well, then it’s not so good. It would be somewhat handy if I could put it down to a thyroid misfunction.  Read more... (260 words, 1 image, estimated 1:02 mins reading time)

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Dirty stories and a Bath

24 February 2010

My friend Heather, the expat Brit now living in Lapland came out with a funny revelation on her blog this morning. She confessed that Finnish supermarkets are extraordinarily well stocked – they even sell sex toys. It reminded me of a funny thing that happened on my first visit to Britain, the one in which I met my Englishman. I’d returned to the UK after our fabulous Parisian interlude and was sightseeing around the country when I landed in Bath.  Read more... (799 words, 1 image, estimated 3:12 mins reading time)

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I’m not a witch, I’m your wife…

23 February 2010

…and other things that make me smile!

I’ve been awarded the sunshine meme by lovely folk YummyMummy and  someone else (who???) which is brilliant I must say.  So here tis the plaque of perkiness, the sign of sunshine itself ‘The Sunshine Award’. I’ve also received the 101 Things that make you smile meme from Susie at New Day New Lesson

So in an attempt to round this up and to brighten this very grey day here’s ten things that make me smile right now.  Read more... (655 words, 3 images, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

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Door mat or darling?

23 February 2010

Dilemmas come in all shapes and sizes.

He loves me when I do the dishes!

Sometimes they come in a porridge bowl and empty cup of tea!

Yesterday morning (Moanday morning) my Englishman awoke full of the joy’s of spring (not!) and was rushing to work. He did not want to get up which was fair enough as he’d fallen asleep only a few hours earlier after trying to nut through a work problem until the wee hours.

Of course, I lovingly woke him by shaking him gently and kissing him on the lips and by saying;  Read more... (950 words, 1 image, estimated 3:48 mins reading time)

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It’s mad!

22 February 2010

Feeling the pain of parenting teenagers!

Whew! I made it here.

There’s been a lot of umming and ahhing around here lately, but finally I’ve managed to get my new blog up and running. I’ve been so preoccupied I didn’t have time to notice the fantastic news.

Mad Manic Mamas – a great blog, has been mentioned in The Sunday Times -no less – as one of the leading Mummy blogs! It’s an excellent blog, set up by the very snazzy, styly Fab Fiesty & Fifty, and I’m one of the happy contributors

Lookeeeeeee here!

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Hello world!

21 February 2010

Hi everyone welcome to my new blog page

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