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Do you talk to yourself?
I do. I talk to myself all day. Mainly because I am by myself all day. I think talking to yourself is perfectly healthy. Here are some of the things I say to myself “OK”, “Right”, “That’s not heavy”, “Are you crazy?”. “Coffee time.” “What the hell is he doing?” “DRINK!” (did you ever watch…
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Another Reason To Walk Down The Back
Don’t just sit there – get up and walk! I know right ? (wriggles in chair and sits up straighter) – our bodies were not designed for a sedentary existence. When I was working with the online tutoring company I spent way too long sitting and I ached! My whole body went out in protest…
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Cranberry Shortbread
So easy to make and quite delicious. The secret is in the pause. The tang of the cranberries with the sweetness of the shortbread is a perfect marriage. And (of course) eating dried fruit with my cookie makes me feel that surely I am doing something good for my body! Ingredients Method Remember that all…
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In Which Direction did My Rain Go?
Before I came to America I never thought about directions in relation to the compass. In New Zealand I never said going North for instance, I would say I am going up to Auckland. Intellectually I knew the sun rose in the East but I did not put that together with an East Facing window.…
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Storm clouds Came, and Left, Without any Storm at all.
I am not going to write an awful lot today – I think these pictures speak for themselves. We did get some sun yesterday but the winds were very high. So the weeding in the asparagus was a trial. The ducks were fine but Mr Flowers did not come out – he does not do…
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An Introduction – Mine
I was born in a house at high tide, on a beach in New Zealand, in the last few days of the 50’s. I spent the next 16 years of my life living in the house on the beach on the East Coast of New Zealand. We have a number of new readers this month…
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