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welcome to welly
“Welcome to Welly”, said the flight attendant into her mic as we landed. I laughed. NZers are notorious for putting ‘ey at the end of any words that don’t pay attention and shortening all the rest! I had steamed from the international airport to the domestic airport in the summer heat in Auckland, (it is
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the archives. december 2013
While you are reading this I have begun the first leg of my journey from California to New Zealand to stay with Eldest Son. It is going to be a long couple of days with some long layovers but I don’t mind. I HATE running for a plane. It does my head in. A random
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destination round up
Back on the farm. Out in the Aussie Burbs. New Zealand next. Me and my body are still in Visalia, California. Will I ever get over the feeling of being in multiple places at once!! Wednesday here (in California) and two more sleeps before I blast off for New Zealand. Yesterday evening I went with
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gardening in california
I am finding it tough to chat about gardens when we have all these shady goings on in the USA and the major news channels so well managed by the Musk and Trump that they are not even reporting it. The Musk unit have not just stolen data from the people who did not vote
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live fish swimming in the winter pond
Exciting news! we went above 60f on Sunday and look! The fish came up for a look see. The whole school is alive. So I think they might last the winter. But the water is a long way from 50f yet so no feeding them! The pump is running again. The heater and the bubbler
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