Monthly Archives: September 2014

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Ruby and Lugs in deep concentration.   "If that stupid rabbit on the deck is playing possum Ruby, i want you to go after it and finish it off with your teeth.  I’m too tired to play its game anymore. Cheers Ruby you are a faithful friend."

Ruby and Lugs in deep concentration.
“If that stupid rabbit on the deck is playing possum Ruby, I want you to go after it and finish it off with your teeth. I’m too tired to play its game anymore. Cheers Ruby you are a faithful friend.”

 

 

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Spring

 

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Spring Orchard Photos

 

Sam took these photos today looking over the south end of the orchard.


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Alex

Alex would have turned sixty today.  How sad it is he isn’t here.

I remember when we were both thirty-six and a friend was turning sixty and Alex commented how it seemed so far away for us!

A hard day for us all.

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9 September

Another frost this morning with Sam starting up the pump at 2:40am.

Ruby made him a chocolate cake before she went to bed so he’s happy.

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This new system of feedback coming to my email address now is working well as my email server filters out the rubbish.  Ha ha… bet the  spammers.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Our colour choice for our house has inspired many.

One woman  up in Auckland sent me a photo of her house with one wall already painted Resene Triple Arrowtown and it looks stunning.

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A photo of our sunroom with its new coat of paint. Doesn’t it look great!

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Streaking is back in the news.

In 1974, streaking was the latest harmless craze.

Ray Stevens’ “The Streak” became a hit on the radio and most had a laugh when somebody was brave enough to ‘streak.’

It was basically a male dominated sport with men of all ages partaking.

It wasn’t deviant or sexual; it was just a naked person running like mad across a sports ground, down a street, across a backyard or the Roxburgh bridge. Yes folks,  Roxburgh had a streaker!

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Back in the seventies I was invited to watch a game of tennis with a friend.
Even though tennis had never interested me I thought I’d give it a go and see if it was as boring as I was convinced it was.

It was , and a quarter way through the game, just before I fell into a deep coma, I spied a streaker out of the corner of my eye.

I came alive and so did most of the crowd.

The streaker ran around like a headless chook for a minute and then made his escape.

Nobody assaulted him.

Everybody smiled.

And the game continued.

And this chubby little chap with a cheeky smile woke me from my near-miss coma.

What could have been a boring day turned out OK in the end.

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Give Me a Break!

Why would anyone want to put a nude photo of herself on a phone or a computer?

Who exactly is their target audience?

Isn’t it a wee bit narcissistic?

Is it for a show and tell?

Oh goodness I feel so old.

We used to call this kind of behaviour vulgar?

Is it so acceptable that nobody is shocked?

This worries me.

I thought ‘selfies’ were bad enough but nude selfies.

Oh give me a break.

I could possibly understand some pimply faced 15 year old doing it as a dare and then Dad finding out and humiliating him/her by having a print made and sticking it on the fridge for all to see to shock some sense into him/her.

But look at the age group of these idiots?

They should be ashamed of themselves and where are the apologies from them to their fan base?

They are only famous because folk pay to watch or listen to them!!

Youth is  fleeting but immaturity is forever.

End of bleat.

Over and out.

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RIP Joan Rivers

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Joan Rivers’ one-liners and self-deprecating humour made us all laugh and she will be remembered and missed.

 

“I don’t exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.”

“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”

“I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die, they will donate my body to Tupperware.”

“I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My make-up team is nominated for best special effects.”‘

“When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.”

“You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.”

“At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass.”

“Boy George is all England needs – another queen who can’t dress.”

“My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, ‘Pick up, I know you’re there’.”

“My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.”

“I was getting dressed and a peeping Tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.”

“It’s common courtesy; he’s doing most of the work; you’ve got to encourage him.”

“A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.”

“I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them”

“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it. ”

“I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.”

“I use a smoke alarm as a timer.”

“You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.”

“I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to Ripley’s Believe It or Not: they sent it back and said, “We don’t believe it.”

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