Category: Living the life
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Stalled by Covid
Not me. I am fine. But Covid arrived uninvited into the little house on the hill in Wellington yesterday. (Well probably days before that but it showed its face yesterday). It has presented as a mild cold for the wee boy in question. I am fine. Healthy. And tested negative. But am waiting here to…
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Something this way weary comes
The first thing I do in the morning is check my photographs from yesterday. And these photographs guide my post for today. But yesterday I was feeling cold and out of sorts. Not quite poorly but a little bloody. When you are feeling bloody it is like you don’t know where to put your body.…
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The Penance of Freezing Rain
This morning the skies transition from the deep cold, up through the buffer of freezing rain and into above freezing temperatures. Fast I hope. Because. Yes. Freezing rain. Ice falling from the sky. My arch enemy. It looks like this from inside the house. Where I am often not. Frozen. The windows are iced up.…
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Marmalade Cats and Bowls
Our Two marmalade cats (LuLu and Vandal) (Naturally Vandal is the cat sitting on top of the grill), looking at the array of feeding bowls (collected over time from second hand shops) and wondering which bowl might contain their dinner. I keep videoing hoping to catch Quacker flying in. She does it every now and…
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What is different about you today?
What if we woke up each morning and asked ourselves: “What is different about me today.” This is yesterday morning: Very cold. Frozen. The leaves were tumbling from the trees. This was last night when I drove up the drive. This is this morning: Last week it was in the 80’s and muggy yesterday was…
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