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Ian Climacus
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For a boy from Fairfield all those suburbs are north somewhere to me, Gee D. ![[Biased]](wink.gif) Seriously: you'd expect that paper to get them right.
![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) N ; and your play is now presented in the city Mr Curly??? I fondly remember visiting your church and seeing it.
Terrible news re John Clarke. We'll claim him as we do all successful NZers. A mighty talent.
Back from just over 2 weeks in Iceland to celebrate my 40th, and a quick visit to California to visit friends as well. A wonderful time, and a wonderful country with wonderful people. Felt I was there for months. I seem to have brought the cold weather back with me.
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Clarke is a colossal loss - one of NZ's greatest exports. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Tukai
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I was one of many at our local Palm Sunday rally in support of refugees, especially those still stuck on Manus or Nauru.
Weather was overcast, but fortunately (thank God!) the rally finished just before the hailstorm hit!
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Lothlorien
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My new phone is due for delivery today by AusLost. I also have another grocery delivery due and am hoping they do not coincide. Grocery drivers are wonderful from my supplier, on time,trackable, polite and helpful. AusLost couriers are totally the opposite. Am planning to ask him to bring phone up as my mobility is improving but not good yet.
Once I have phone, I will organise new SIM as I am continuing my plan.
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian Climacus:
... Back from just over 2 weeks in Iceland to celebrate my 40th ...
Many happy returns! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
D. and I went to Iceland for a long weekend for his 40th and absolutely fell in love with the place, so we went back six years later for mine.
Both of our birthdays are in the winter (his in December, mine in February), and I can highly recommend swimming in the Blue Lagoon with hailstones falling in your hair.
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Lothlorien
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Am abaout to start yet another complaint for AusLost. I just checked the tracking info again. It now has that at 7:50 am the courier could not deliver , no safe location. I live in a security block and buzzer needs to be rung to be let in or to give notifications. At that time, I was dressed and eating breakfast. No buzzer at all. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif) This is the usual response from me for a delivery by them. Had I known from website when I bought phone that they used this courier system I would have requested another means.
I will go down later to see if there has been a card left. Probably not. Nothing possible till later in day when courier returns to PO.
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Banner Lady
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ooooh...not often we get to see a triple burn from Loth...some couriers are dreadful but it is usually the individuals not the company. I have been at home with lights on, curtains and door open, doorbells front and back working and actually been standing at the window in time to see van pull up, driver leap out, chuck a card in the letterbox and drive off. Obviously had no intention of getting to the front door (@ 2 metres behind said letterbox). Others from the same company are wonderful.
I know this, because eldest daughter has regular deliveries of new fashion accessories arriving for her. TP used to joke that she was holding up 5% of the Chinese economy. TP also gets books delivered once a month. Really seems to depend on who is driving the van as to how diligently things are delivered, if at all.
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Latchkey Kid
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We once posted in the special home postcode box at our PO to a place 1km away in town. It took a week to get there. Apparently, it still has to go to the sorting office in Casino 90 minutes drive away.
At the end of February my sister in England let us know that our Christmas Card, sent at the beginning of December, had just arrived. I think the Australian postal system may not have many years to go.
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Lothlorien
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Thanks, BL. I do not know how that happened. Have deleted two of them.
You are right, it is the person although the system is far from perfect. This fellow lies often. My hairdresser said the sa,me when she was here the other day, voicing the same opinion as I held re local PO. Uber driver collected a bulky but light parcel for me while I waited in cab. He voiced an opinion of local staff and their skills when he returned with my parcel. Other residents here would back me up about this particular fellow. This is the second time he has used 6:50 as a time of ringing. Last time, there were three people here. .
I had an incident number and a phone number for several years because of the rudeness of courier. "I am only doing this because you are old and helpless." Not true at all. That complaint brought his boss to pay me a visit.
Christmas 2016 saw christmas presents for grandchildren disappear. They "fell off the back of a truck," as the saying goes. They were stolen. Eventually tracked down.
On the other hand, my groceries have just been delivered halfway through the time allowed in tracking. Drivers are unfailingly polite and helpful.
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Welease Woderwick
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Amazon.in, and presumably other companies as well, have a scheme where you can nominate a courier or two - one of the ones down on their list for this area is, frankly, a waste of time so I have simply asked them to use one of three with offices based in nearby town and it was done, instantly.
Result me being a happy customer.
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Gee D
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Good to see you back WW, and prayers for a speedy recovery.
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Galloping Granny
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
My new phone is due for delivery today by AusLost. I also have another grocery delivery due and am hoping they do not coincide. Grocery drivers are wonderful from my supplier, on time,trackable, polite and helpful. AusLost couriers are totally the opposite. Am planning to ask him to bring phone up as my mobility is improving but not good yet.
Once I have phone, I will organise new SIM as I am continuing my plan.
2degrees rang a couple of months ago to say they were giving long-time customers a new phone. She described its features; when I said I only needed a granny-phone, to make and receive phone calls and texts, she said they had that option too, and it would arrive in a few days. It arrived two weeks later, after I'd left on holiday, but finally last week Son arrived to insert sim and battery and put a selfie of the two of us on the screen. But I still couldn't send a text till he brought the 16-year-old round to help me sort it out. She knows she's not to seize the phone and show me what to do, but to give it to me and tell me what to do.
RIP John Clarke. Apparently he said he never revisited us because he so hated flying. We did miss him.
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Zappa
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Cyclone Cook is dribbling in and predicted to reach the intensities generated by Cyclone Giselle, better known as The Wahine Storm on April 10 1968. I remember that day well.
I doubt it will, but a few rivers are rising - GG, up your way it's vulnerable, isn't it? We're in a storm shadow here, so just some steady-heavy-drizzle predicted. Kuruman is flying out to Oz on Friday, though, and that may be more tricky.
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Huia
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Apart from going to church (if the wind and rain permit) I'm staying home to make soup (chicken and barley broth as well as bacon hock) and read.
YaY for e books on the kindle and tablet. In a move that I have never really understood, the library system here is closed on Good Friday, open on Saturday and Sunday, and closed on Monday ![[Confused]](confused.gif) Apparently Easter Day is not a Public Holiday, (but shops have been prosecuted for being open then) whereas Easter Monday is. I know the law is changing, but it's still weird.
Added to all this my branch library is in a shopping Mall so is closed on Easter day as well as Easter Monday.
I also wondering whether ebooks, which are available 24/7, can be borrowed on Public holidays.
Probably only an obsessive library user would be wondering about such matters.
Huia ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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MaryLouise
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Up in Pretoria for work, rain early this morning but took the day off to walk with a group of old activist friends from Church Street to the Union Buildings and join a massed opposition rally calling for corrupt President Zuma to resign. The weather cleared and the atmosphere on the lawns of the Union Buildngs was lively but relaxed, friendly, helpful. Huge crowds and disciplined marching through the streets. Glad I'd lost some weight, able to keep up with those +40 years, if not the dancing and running youngsters.
Heading back to the Cape and another cold front, hoping for rain. The glimpses of depleted dams and bone-dry river beds from the plane window were scary.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Cyclone Cook is dribbling in and predicted to reach the intensities generated by Cyclone Giselle, better known as The Wahine Storm on April 10 1968. I remember that day well.
I doubt it will, but a few rivers are rising - GG, up your way it's vulnerable, isn't it? We're in a storm shadow here, so just some steady-heavy-drizzle predicted. Kuruman is flying out to Oz on Friday, though, and that may be more tricky.
Hope you will all be ok and everyone else anywhere near too.
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Piglet
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What Loth said - prayers ascending for all likely to be affected.
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by MaryLouise:
...Heading back to the Cape and another cold front, hoping for rain. The glimpses of depleted dams and bone-dry river beds from the plane window were scary.
Drought is scary! This state has just been declared officially afflicted by it but because of the topography I don't think it will last too long and the declaration may well have left out this District.
for enough rain for all.
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Lots of weather warnings in NZ still. Am hoping it isn't as bad as the predictions suggest.
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Huia
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Apparently Auckland has escaped the rain and the strong wind warnings there have lifted.
It looks like some areas on the east coast of the North Island won't be so lucky.
At this stage Christchurch is forecast to have a couple of hours of heavy rain around midnight and strong winds tomorrow. The forecast is due to be updated at 9pm. If it's too windy I will just batten the hatches and continue to make soup and read books,. I do want to go to church on Good Friday, but it's silly to take a risk that could end up endangering other people too.
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Gee D
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To all in NZ, Madame and I are remembering you.
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Gee D
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Originally posted by MaryLouise:
Heading back to the Cape and another cold front, hoping for rain. The glimpses of depleted dams and bone-dry river beds from the plane window were scary.
As WW says, drought is scary. 10 years or so ago, towards the end of our last major drought in eastern Australia, water became very scarce, even in Sydney with its large storage dams. The city of Goulburn, about 2 hours drive SSW from here on the way to Canberra, was in very real danger of running out of water. More recently, there've been similar fears for the town of Broken Hill, about 1,000 km west, on the NSW/SA border.
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MaryLouise
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Thinking of those struggling with drought (WW) and those facing storms in NZ.
Woke up before dawn and the rain was falling! A great relief although the highways out of Cape Town are going to be congested and nightmarish later, as city people head out for the Easter weekend. Capetonians drive like lunatics in the rain. Years ago, an otherwise sane Capetonian told me that when it starts to rain while he is driving, he puts his foot on the accelerator 'to make a dash for it' and get back indoors out of the damp. I imagine this sentiment would be inexplicable to most Brits, but even if there's brief light cloudburst in the city, you see everyone speed up and overtake so as to get somewhere safe and dry.
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Lothlorien
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Patience for all concerned and safety for all. A good idea to stay at home and a good excuse.
Son had flight cancelled home from Brisbane when very severe storms closed Sydney. He managed a flight almost 30 hours later. Only a few weeks ago but before cyclone Debbie.hope she gets accommodation. He got last room in close hotel and luckily his work really had little choice but to pay for it as he had been at work conference.
Lots of picture over here of water everywhere.
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Huia
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Rain and wind have been worse than usual for Christchurch, but nothing near as bad as a normal southerly storm in Wellington but the next few hours will probably be worse. It's forecast to clear this afternoon.
Apparently the now down graded storm detoured further east. Large parts of the east coast of the North Island weren't so lucky and are without power. There will be a lot of cleaning up to do after flood waters recede.
Hoping you're in the city GG - it seems less affected than Matarangi
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Banner Lady
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May it be a GOOD and blessed Good Friday for all, whatever the weather where you are.
A glorious golden autumn day has dawned here in the National Capital. Up to the aged care facility this morning to spend time reflecting with those on the cusp of life and death. Poignant.
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MaryLouise
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Grey autumnal Good Friday here, very welcome cooler weather. In the back garden the plectranthus is blooming purple and mauve, which feels quite liturgical.
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The sun shone today. Over 1,000 people came to watch our play at Martin Place and follow Jesus up Pitt St. Jesus was crucified on a food court balcony, and then Pitt St resounded with the whole assembly singing Amazing Grace.
I have set the firepit in the back yeard ready for a quiet and reflective cast after-party.
Very,very tired
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Prayers ascending for all travelling, or trying to, in difficult conditions.
I still have to put what passes for my brain into a different gear to think of Good Friday/Easter in the autumn. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Banner Lady
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Not as difficult as us here in the southern hemisphere coping with all the Spring themed Easter gift stuff in the shops, Piglet.
What would we do without Chrysanthemum daisies and packets of bulbs?
On Maundy Thursday we planted some crocus and anemones out in our waterless Iris pond. The crocus were beginning to shoot so will be watching all winter for the flower spikes.
Today I will be packaging my little homemade dried fruit Easter eggs for the family gathering tomorrow. Gifts for the adults.
First ever family Easter egg hunt scheduled at B1's place- we have six pre-schoolers in the family now, and two primary schoolers. Should be interesting. Largest grandson is working tomorrow, but somehow I don't think he minds missing out on it at all....
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Gee D
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Great news Mr Curly about your good season.
A couple of very enjoyable autumn days here also. Quite a bit of gardening done yesterday and more to be done this afternoon. The rain and then the mild weather have seem weeds spring up in areas they have not been seen for years. Once this afternoon's work is done, we can then move onto planting more spring bulbs.
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Here it's best to get them in before the first frost, although I have planted them in spring, but they weren't as successful the first year.
There is a church further north, but still in the Sth Island that is named for the same saint as the church I attend. The area was hit fairly badly by the November quake. Someone in our congregation had the idea of sending some small gifts in solidarity (as many people sent things to Christchurch). I am sending some mini daffodil bulbs because, for me the daffodils coming up in the spring after the big quakes and amidst the thousands of aftershocks were a sign of hope. I know it may sound weird, but I found the fact that the seasons continued in the usual way immensely comforting in the midst of so much uncertainty.
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Looking in before bed to wish all a blessed Easter. It's been an unusual Triduum. Mr Vulpior and I attended a funeral instead of the Good Friday liturgy; a friend took his own life a week ago and the National SDA church hall was packed for the farewell and tributes. Today we headed into Monga National Park for an ashes scattering; marking a far more timely death with picnic and red wine.
I am (lay) deacon for the dawn service tomorrow, so I'll be leaving the house at about 5am. Mr Vulpior turns 21 again tomorrow, so we're aiming for a 2pm lamb roast. The Anzac biscuit cheesecake is cooling, the fruit-infused vodka is bottled, and I just have to wrap his present and write the card.
Posts here have been read semi-regularly, but I've not been chipping in.
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Tukai
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Our friend L (the one who had her brain tumour recur) died on Good Friday. A very fitting day fro a good Christian to die. We pray for new life for her and her family (in their different ways) on Easter Day.
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Tukai, I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend.
May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
Re: bulb-planting, I remember my dad planting hyacinth bulbs at some point before Christmas, so in the Southern hemisphere now sounds about right.
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Yes, indeed remembering L.
A full day, starting with the new fire service at 5.30. A great service, but so early! Maybe not make the change back from daylight saving until after Easter? It will be a very simple and easy pasta dinner for us and early to bed.
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Lothlorien
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Lovely day here, actually good weekend. Friday saw church and visiting with middle son and family, then family meal at night. Eldest son is back in China on business, but our chat program has been running hot all day and lots of photos. Youngest son and his eldest came for lunch from Central Coast.
I put a leg of lamb in to slow cook early in morning. Fresh herbs with lots of rosemary . After son arrived around midday, he took over. PileS of baked vegetables and his famous gravy., complete with some anchovies. They make a great gravy, but you would not know the secret ingredient. Red wine and a leisurely meal. Miss 16 did the cleaning up without a murmur after her father suggested it would be a good thing for her to do. We sat and chatted and they left after 5 for train home. Loads of leftovers, always a good thing.
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During the Easter service this morning I noticed how many hymns referred to spring, longer days, etc. Do you all sing these hymns down under?
Do you have any Easter hymns that refer to autumn?
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MaryLouise
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Moo, out here in Africa it's all cognitive dissonance and pretending it is spring -- we only get to sing our winter hymns and carols about snow falling and wassail at Christmas when mid-summer temperatures are peaking.
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Zappa
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Moo, out here in Africa it's all cognitive dissonance and pretending it is spring -- we only get to sing our winter hymns and carols about snow falling and wassail at Christmas when mid-summer temperatures are peaking.
And as I am borderline SAD (no, not Trump's version) I find it very difficult. As the icy touch of a southerly (Piglet will need to rejig directionality, too) and the sight of autumn leaves comes on my I feel a rising panic. I repress it, but only just - and so miss Darwin.
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Banner Lady
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Sign of Easter for us was watching three rosella parrots happily munching pomegranates in our garden, while the golden leaves fluttered down from the trees around them.
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Originally posted by Zappa:
... As the icy touch of a southerly (Piglet will need to rejig directionality ...)
Rejigging in progress ...
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Banner Lady
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Originally posted by Moo:
During the Easter service this morning I noticed how many hymns referred to spring, longer days, etc. Do you all sing these hymns down under?
Do you have any Easter hymns that refer to autumn?
Moo
Yesterday at the aged care facility the chaplain did something quite unconventional at the end of the service. The usual 3 hymns were sung, beginning in time honoured tradition with Christ the Lord is risen today. The concluding hymn, she explained, was to put to rights the intention of the author Isaac Watts, who always intended Joy to the World to be sung at Easter. Somehow it is always trotted out at Christmas in these parts... but it was a wonderful way to finish the Easter service. I thoroughly recommend it!
And the music neatly circumvented the seasonal thing entirely.
[ 17. April 2017, 02:32: Message edited by: Banner Lady ]
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Gee D
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Given the number of leaves falling in our garden, the season is definitely fall, not even autumn
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MaryLouise
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A brisk wind since yesterday, so we're also looking at heaps of leaves piling up in corners of the garden and in street gutters -- red oak leaves, sere yellow of catalpa and poplar, brown from the liquidambar, orange from Pride of India and fiddlewood, russet and pink from the indigenous Lavender Tree (Heteropyxis natalensis). The forest plectranthus is in flower and there are green olives visible on the olive trees. Aloes branching up and the kalanchoe are deep burgundy. I love this time of year (sorry, Zappa).
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Clarence
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If you missed it, make sure you catch up on iview John Clarke: Thanks for your time . I'm hoping it screens in NZ too. Such a fantastic tribute.
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