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Mr Curly
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Not a great day today. Feral children, "issues", strange week ahead.
Would love to be travelling somewhere. For fun. But maybe not BrisVagas. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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James the Confident
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Exciting stuff JtC! Hope you will have a chance to meet up with some of our mutual friends while you are away.
I'm in the midst of packing up ready for the move to The House in the Paddock and have missed a lot that's been going on ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) Huia, GG, Lothlorien
Oh I will. I'm staying on in London for a few days afterward and will be seeing several people. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Dee.
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Hello All,
Just checking in to say hi, hope all the ANZACs are doing ok
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Lothlorien
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Mr Curly, hope the week improves for you.
I feel better today than yesterday but my head is so stuffed I can hardly breather.
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Dee.
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Ah Mr Zappa,
I was thinking of you on Sunday morning as I was sitting on the back step admiring my garden eating bacon and eggs and listening to Bob Dylan...I was thinking to myself...If you are going to wag church this is the way to do it...I bet Zappa would approve!
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Banner Lady
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Hey, Dee! Good to see you back, even momentarily!
My first experience of a 2 hour Requiem Eucharist at the big house today.
Got home and TP asked how it went and what did I have to do? "Well," I said, "Your wife stopped traffic in town today."
Literally. Because the thurifer, crucifer and acolytes walked (robed) in front of the hearse for a city block after the committal.
It was a VERY comprehensive send-off!
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James the Confident
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Originally posted by Dee.:
Ah Mr Zappa,
I was thinking of you on Sunday morning as I was sitting on the back step admiring my garden eating bacon and eggs and listening to Bob Dylan...I was thinking to myself...If you are going to wag church this is the way to do it...I bet Zappa would approve!
Wow! A garden that eats bacon and eggs! Whatever next? ![[Confused]](confused.gif) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Huia
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Hi Dee - was thinking about you this morning. My Fujitsu heat pump was finally installed last week Georgie-Porgy fat'n'fluffy fully approves. (Yeah - I know it's February, but it was damn cold at 2am when I woke up.)
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Dee.
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Hey Huia,
so glad your heat pump is living up to expectation. They work as air conditioning in hot weather as well.
Dont you guys regularly feed your gardens bacon and eggs? Perhaps its just an Auckland thing??
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Clarence
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Dee! Lovely to see you hereabouts.
Have just moved to The Parsonage in The Paddock. The house is a forest of boxes so we are outside admiring the view, drinking some NZ bubbly and swatting the mozzies and ignoring the unpacking.
Not a bad finish to the day.
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Huia
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Hey Huia,
so glad your heat pump is living up to expectation. They work as air conditioning in hot weather as well.
What hot weather? Summer has been almost unnoticeable here this season. A couple of good days in Nov/Dec, but February, the month you can usually rely on has had cool, overcast and drizzly days. What with that and the shaky days Cantabrians are decidedly disgruntled.
It's also a bit disconcerting that they inspect buildings more closely and close them down as unsafe - make us wonder how many unsafe public buildings we have been using thinking they were safe. The cordon round the town centre which was to be lifted at the beginning of April has had it's date for lifting pushed back by a couple of weeks because of this.
Fortunately I'm going to Wellington again next week, so I should be OK --- Yeah, Right!
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Galloping Granny
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Originally posted by Huia:
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Originally posted by Dee.:
Hey Huia,
so glad your heat pump is living up to expectation. They work as air conditioning in hot weather as well.
What hot weather? Summer has been almost unnoticeable here this season. A couple of good days in Nov/Dec, but February, the month you can usually rely on has had cool, overcast and drizzly days. What with that and the shaky days Cantabrians are decidedly disgruntled.
It's also a bit disconcerting that they inspect buildings more closely and close them down as unsafe - make us wonder how many unsafe public buildings we have been using thinking they were safe. The cordon round the town centre which was to be lifted at the beginning of April has had it's date for lifting pushed back by a couple of weeks because of this.
Fortunately I'm going to Wellington again next week, so I should be OK --- Yeah, Right!
Huia
We have to get a heat pump – first task when the Grandad gets out of hospital – this Friday with luck. Apparently there's someone at the Council who comes and advises you for free, which will be helpful.
Summer? Well, the Equinox isn't that far off, but we've had two days this week when one or more loads of washing could be dried. And every night when I step outside before going to bed, there's a total absence of wind – not a sound from the motionless trees. I've actually heard more cicadas in the last month than in December.
Parking in the underground car park at the big new hospital, with seven more storeys above me, it's reassuring to be in a forest of huge pillars with shake-proof cushions. Good luck with the rebuilding in Christchurch: those cushions must cost but they are the way to go.
Huia, I hope your city when it's rebuilt will be beautiful again.
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Huia
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GG I hope the Grandad continues to recover. I think the people who advise on heat pumps also check on curtains, insulation etc as well, as it's not very efficient to heat the space if all the heat is escaping.
I don't envy you going to the underground carpark, even with the safety cushions. I haven't been underground anywhere since the quakes started, but I guess I will have to at some time. I think one of the worst effects is the hypervigilence many of us are experiencing, but I am determined it's not going to limit the places I go. (Oh damn - I just realised Dad has an appointment at Wellington Hospital while I'm up there, so I may have to face that challenge sooner than I thought ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) )
It will take a number of years, but I hope the new Christchurch will be worth the wait. (Can we build a new library first please? ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
Huia - bookworm
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Galloping Granny
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Huia, there is an outdoor carpark as well as the basement one, though one has to step inside the main carpark door to pay. But I guess even going into a huge building is the challenge – try to trust that really amazing construction underneath.
I understand how traumatic enclosed building spaces are for Cantabrians, having heard someone being interviewed on the Concert programme expressing his extreme discomfort at having to come in to the studio. And I think he talked about the orchestra's difficulty in coming into a hall to play. This was some months ago.
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Originally posted by Dee.:
Ah Mr Zappa,
I was thinking of you on Sunday morning as I was sitting on the back step admiring my garden eating bacon and eggs and listening to Bob Dylan...I was thinking to myself...If you are going to wag church this is the way to do it...I bet Zappa would approve!
Hmmm ... say/attend Mass, then listen to His Bobness. Whatever do they teach young people these days? ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
A storm is rolling in - only a small one but our first for nearly a fortnight.
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Huia
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GG -it does get easier, well it has for me. I even visit a friend on a regular basis whose house has a chimney - but I don't know if I could actually live there.
Just an advance notice for any passing Kiwis - TV3 is screening "When A City Falls" - a documentary of the 22/2 quake at 7.30pm on the anniversary. The DvD will be on sale the next day. I'll be in Wellington then, but I hope I can persuade family to watch it.
For any passing Londoners - it's being screened somewhere in London on the same day (will head over to their thread).
Huia
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Dee.
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Well,
I must say it is a beautiful day up here today, it sounds like you Cantabrians have had summer this year...on a Wednesday in December.
I spent a lovely week in January in Waipu in Northland at the beach, sun, sand and my two beautiful nieces to make sandcastles with.
As far a summer goes I am happy with the week I got at the beach, I hope you guys manage to squeeze a sunny week in before Autumn sets in!
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So I was on cooking duty tonight, and decided to make pizza; using up various bits and pieces in the fridge. As there are three cooks in the house, there are often half-used jars of pasta sauce in there.
I had a glass of wine, and then another, and then a third (just to help make kitchen duty bearable doncha know). I whipped up some beautiful looking home made pizzas....and then TP emerged from the TV room saying his pizza tasted 'funny'.
Last month a friend of ours (who is heavily medicated most of the time), gave us some very strange unpipped home made plum jam - in an old pasta sauce jar - which had gravitated to the back of the fridge.
Can I just say that pizza made with a plum jam base is bl**dy awful. ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
BL. Ok with banners. Definitely not ok in the kitchen.
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Lothlorien
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BL, Many years ago I cooked rice adding salt from a brown a paper bag marked CS. Remember when so-called healthfood stores sold all sorts of thing in bulk.
I don't like sweet rice now and really hated it then. So added some more CS. Eventually discovered it was not common salt but caster sugar.
someone recused it an made some sweet rice dish out of it. Don't think I'd like to try rescuing your pizza.
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Dee.
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Sounds like Terminal Pizza to me,
Although...if you used plum sauce on the base, added chicken, mushrooms, cream cheese and then covered it in grated cheese that would work...
Just sayin..
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Mr Curly
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This Thai pizza is what I had in mind.
I once put salt instead of sugar in a waffle mix, from an unlabelled jar. Oops.
Trying to finish a short story for a competition today. The good idea that inspired it is not helping me finish it!
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rexory
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BL ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Galloping Granny
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Flatting as a student, with pretty good cooks in the house, I arrived home from a lecture and devoured meat and veg, then poured custard on stewed fruit – only it was cheese sauce for the cauliflower.
Or was it the other way round? This was, after all, sixty years ago. At least three of the six girls are gone to their rest...
Eheu fugaces...
(Sorry) Alas, the fleeting years slip by.
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Gee D
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A local (non-chain) pizza shop makes sweet pizzas, using chocolate bases - white or dark - and a range of fruit toppings. If Dlet is having a group over for a bbq, we sometimes order these as a takeaway for pudding.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Gee D:
A local (non-chain) pizza shop makes sweet pizzas, using chocolate bases - white or dark - and a range of fruit toppings. If Dlet is having a group over for a bbq, we sometimes order these as a takeaway for pudding.
Local here does this too, but it's specific, not a use up the bits in the fridge type thing.
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Clarence
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And I thought potato pizza was weird ( but good, with lots of cheese and herbs).
FD did his first wedding today at the Church on the Mountain. He did really well, apart from getting the bride and grooms rings mixed up.
Back at the Parsonage in the Paddock, am still surrounded by boxes. But these are easily ignored with a glass of red in hand.
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GG
I loved that anecdote and memorial. Thank you.
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![[Mad]](angryfire.gif) @ youtube. Uploaded half a dozen videos and not one of them took. OK, two did, but the remaining 4 didn't. 2 1/2 hours of uploads wasted.
Grrrrrrrr
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Gee D
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
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Originally posted by Gee D:
A local (non-chain) pizza shop makes sweet pizzas, using chocolate bases - white or dark - and a range of fruit toppings. If Dlet is having a group over for a bbq, we sometimes order these as a takeaway for pudding.
Local here does this too, but it's specific, not a use up the bits in the fridge type thing.
Yes, these are a standard menu item. They are popular, and easy on us. The BG Hotel has a couple of calzone pizzas - one with a Mars Bar and the other Rocky Road. They say one's enough for 2. For us, none is quite sufficient.
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Evangeline
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Was nice to be back at church this am, after having missed weeks for various reasons. Am going to a small informal reunion of friends from a former church most of whom I haven't seen in years, will be interesting to see what everyone is up to and whether that stat about people drifting away from church is true, I suspect this bunch will all still be involved in church one way or another.
Yes GD re the BG calzones, I went to the BG a year or 2 ago-a major trek for us to see north shore & north-west friends-somebody ordered that awful calzone, the rest of us looked on in horror, there was a lot of pressure on him to man-up and consume the whole ghastly concoction but he failed, no doubt his pancreas was thankful.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Gee D:
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
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Originally posted by Gee D:
A local (non-chain) pizza shop makes sweet pizzas, using chocolate bases - white or dark - and a range of fruit toppings. If Dlet is having a group over for a bbq, we sometimes order these as a takeaway for pudding.
Local here does this too, but it's specific, not a use up the bits in the fridge type thing.
Yes, these are a standard menu item. They are popular, and easy on us. The BG Hotel has a couple of calzone pizzas - one with a Mars Bar and the other Rocky Road. They say one's enough for 2. For us, none is quite sufficient.
Haven't been there for ages. Local pizza place does dessert pizzas with Nutella or similar and strawberries, as well as your type with fruit.
Interesting point is that they won't do gluten free like this. Say the base doesn't work, although any savoury pizzaz are fine. Grandchildren make do with strawberries and cream or gelato.
Glad you're back Evangeline. Wrecked my foot at son's place yesterday and am hobbling around, with some difficulty.
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Two weeks after the trip to A & E I have the Grandad home, very happy because in spite of having half his gut gone and learning a new routine for daily life, he's alive.
No more twice daily trips to hospital for me (and of course no more lovely nurses for him); careful cooking of the recommended food, which is not so different from our usual diet – and they say life becomes quite normal after a few weeks.
(How do people who've never eaten anything but takeaways get on?)
And support from everyone, practical and prayer-oriented (from the Ship and the congo), has been so heartwarming.
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Loving "The Straits", by the way
Me too!
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Will continue praying GG, but am glad he's home.
Big emergency down below at service station. The big gas tanker had not long left after refilling tanks. I'm guessing there must have been a leak because there was no smoke from a fire. Very frantic PA calls and cars were left at service station while people took refuge on McD's verandahs. Fire engine, firemen with backpack foam cylinders and total chaos. There are several ways in here and different exits but they were blocked. Firemen did point duty once emergency was over to untangle mess.
I said my foot was sore. I sat on chair and looked in wardrobe mirrored door while I held foot up. Bruised and cut big toe and the ball of my foot, especially behind that toe, but across base of foot, is swollen and very nastily bruised. Will be a rainbow of colours in a couple of days, I guess. Backyard cricket casualty, I think.
Rexory, how are the ribs?
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Two weeks after the trip to A & E I have the Grandad home, very happy because in spite of having half his gut gone and learning a new routine for daily life, he's alive.
(How do people who've never eaten anything but takeaways get on?)
I often hate to think! Perhpas they don't last long enough to find out! I'm really glad that things are returning to normal. Continued for new routines and diets.
Also for you, Lothlorien - that foot sounds painful!
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Rexory, how are the ribs?
Pretty much OK now, thanks. Did get a "letter of Demand" from the lady's insurers a couple of days ago. Repairs to her vehicle. I replied, denying any liability and counter-claiming $1,100, the cost of my car's repairs. Interesting to see where it goes from here!
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Rexory, you also have broken ribs and a GP to report that. I think if that is thrown at them they will become silent indeed. Especially since she buggered off.
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Actually, it just occurred to slow old me that thanking them for providing her details as she injured you and left the scene of an accident where there was injury and damage should cause all sorts of chaos.
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OzO, I did tell the insurer that I have passed on the lady's registration number to the police, and I did mention my broken ribs. Who knows where it will go now?
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Loving "The Straits", by the way
Me too!
I'm so glad someone is. I was beginning to think I was some sort of deviant.
Well we haven't entirely ruled that out ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Fine weather for 2 days runnimg and only baby aftershocks. Life's not too bad. Wednesday is the anniversary of the quake that killed so many people, so there is a lot about it on the various media. I tend to switch off. I notice that some people are getting worse with time, as can happen with PTSD, and some are still living with uncertainty regarding their houses. Part of the problem is that with more detailed engineering reports, and ongoing aftershocks, no one can give a final answer and different areas are being cordoned off.
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Met a lovely English couple yesterday who have been in the cathedral parish for just five weeks. They described themselves as 'refugees from Christchurch' and had come to Oz as all their family live in Sydney. They were celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary - a marriage which encompassed them living in and restoring an 11th century castle at one stage - so I guess they have survived quite a lot. As bits fall off the cathedral regularly, they already feel quite at home!
It did make me think of you Huia, and those who still live on shaky ground.
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Dee.
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poor old Cantabrians!
A number of colleagues based in Christchurch have been making moving on noises, One of my workmates has resigned and is moving his young family up to Nelson. Its been pretty hard on his kids who are preschoolers.
Because I represent staff from a number of national companies I hear a lot about people making a run for it or waiting to find out what is happening with their property so that they can then make a run for it.
Must be hard on those who decide to stay.
How are you doing Huia?
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My lucky day today! First an email from a senior associate of a major Scottish bank. I presume he had good news for me if I would just send my bank details to him. I didn't open it.
Secondly, a phishing attempt purporting to come from Amazon. It even gave an order number that I could see in header. I was suspicious, I did have a cancellation before Christmas, so checked my own records. Nothing like their order number style, so without opening it too, I have sent relevant details to AMazon. Yep, phishing.
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Letter of demand. <sigh>
After I had a person turn right in front of me suddenly yesterday, my beautiful old road bike has met its demise.
35 km/hr versus front fender = me lying on bonnet with a half of my bike lying on each side of me. Hopefully he does have insurance and comes to the party. He seemed a nice kid anyway.
Yes I am fine. Few bruises and scratches only. But I am banned from riding to work. <sigh>.
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