tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405906626700876682024-03-06T13:45:12.999+11:00Mostly Older Than MeJuleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-10725472540676157142011-11-25T23:28:00.003+11:002011-11-27T21:34:28.804+11:00So long, farewell, adieu......<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiMw5kPp20U6eMthueqfxzuVRQRrFZgDa2LyoMJmOtrSZjQVzWLEK9UOr0R08viJT5ES0HsUCbP8E1g7pB0i2m3ugXcHNAdiPNQJKt3RPCClDAHWD4_TbVKpfDWyDw_K6pEmfvJxuNMWi7/s1600/P1060787.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiMw5kPp20U6eMthueqfxzuVRQRrFZgDa2LyoMJmOtrSZjQVzWLEK9UOr0R08viJT5ES0HsUCbP8E1g7pB0i2m3ugXcHNAdiPNQJKt3RPCClDAHWD4_TbVKpfDWyDw_K6pEmfvJxuNMWi7/s400/P1060787.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is with a heavy heart</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that tonight I pull the plug on</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> mostly older than me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This blog has been about the family</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">our dreams, our plans.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now I have to find my own dreams</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and make my own plans</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and those dreams and plans</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">deserve a place of their own</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But it is important that I not</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">leave here without</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">saying how much I have enjoyed the trip</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a huge thank you to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">those wonderful people who</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">have travelled it with me. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To <a href="http://tranquiltownhouse.blogspot.com/">Kerry</a>, <a href="http://reneefinberg.blogspot.com/">Renee</a>,<a href="http://flwrjane-smallbutcharming.blogspot.com/"> Jane</a> and <a href="http://therubieplace.blogspot.com/">Tina </a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who held my hand over the last</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">seven months and made</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sure I came back</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the friends I met who have also been there</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">through the long hall</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vicki from Vicki lane mysteries</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anita from Castles Crowns and Castles,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Semi expat in Oz,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A-M</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Life in the Country Lane</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">James</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Karina,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gigi</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A room for everyone</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and Ann </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are so many other wonderful people I met</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who have widened my view of the world</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who allowed me to share some of their</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">tears and laughter who</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gave me a glimpse of their lives</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and who taught me that</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">goodness still abounds in this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">world of ours</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">I thank you one and all</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hopefully I will catch up again in the near future</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but for the last time from here</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Goodnight</b></span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-49093857027020812312011-11-23T22:27:00.000+11:002011-11-23T22:27:41.280+11:00tidying up loose ends<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Following up and tidying up loose ends</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jOZcHjO7EV8/TmUY19qq31I/AAAAAAAAAKg/UEPBXPbr9aI/w348-h261-k/P1050077.JPG" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On my sidebar is a link to </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://mostlyolderthanme.blogspot.com/2010/06/piece-of-history.html">Stratford House</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a house </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that was built by </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">mbrose and Bridget Rotton</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">without whom I would not be here!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in the post I wondered what</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it would have been like inside</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and UK daughter promised to visit.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She did and we have lovely photos</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of........</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Offices!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But we were not to be totally denied a vision</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">into the past as we then discovered</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that Bridget's brother had built a</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">house a few years before</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and it was this house that Ambrose and Bridget</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">obviously got some of their ideas from</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">they are incredibly similar.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and this house, called Blakesley Hall,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is also still standing</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and is in fact a museum so</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">if you would like to have a look hop over here to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://westcountrybuddha.blogspot.com/2011/08/blakesley-hall-birmingham-wattle-and.html">Blakesley Hall</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and check out how they lived in the 1600's!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Maybe find a few ideas for your new interiors!!!!!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-36200307679834664822011-11-05T18:50:00.004+11:002011-11-05T18:58:10.586+11:00The joys of downloading!!!!!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">What a wondrous world</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">hangs out there in the ether!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We disposed of the cameras upload program</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">downloaded another</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and here we are!!</span>!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">don't know if this is all going to work</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but if it does</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the pic is a rather wonderful shot</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">taken by the clever</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gregoir</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">just before my first guests arrived</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for my first </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"entertaining"!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So lets see how this works!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
</span></div></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-44744860862380366292011-11-01T22:41:00.001+11:002011-11-01T22:44:50.808+11:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My computer has taken</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">exception to the fact</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that it has had little use in the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">past 6 months</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It absolutely refuses to allow me to load</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">any photos.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The minute I try I get the dreaded</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">blue screen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Don't know how long it is going</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to continue this sulk...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but we will continue anyway</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and hope it forgives me </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for being absent so long!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blogger on the other hand has </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">recovered from it's sulk and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is now allowing me to log in to my dashboard instead of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">just the new post page!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So after this very boring tirade</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it would appear that </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am back</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for all those wonderful comments</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and emails that have kept me going</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you are a truly wonderful group of people</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hugs to you all</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and Goodnight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-25613045578729930902011-10-31T00:01:00.000+11:002011-10-31T00:01:08.818+11:00<i>I have a problem </i><div><i>I am not allowed to log on but I can post!</i></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-87926871210551455502011-07-11T22:42:00.000+10:002011-07-11T22:42:13.698+10:00Some good news at last...!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15000 rioting people</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">100's of riot police</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">tear gas hanging in the air for hours,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">two days of transport strike!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Did I say good news?!!!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Well yes...</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">because</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> despite all the carrying on in Athens </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">our beautiful Harry</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ignored it all</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and he and his team</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">played wonderfully and he brought home </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a bronze medal</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">World Special Olympics!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His parents, sister, aunt and Gregoir</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all braved the elements to watch</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">him play.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Harry </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Papa would have been soooooo proud!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and as usual you continue to amaze me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with your sporting abilities,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">your sportsmanship,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">your team spirit,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">your indomitable spirit and your </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">truly wonderful sense of humour.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You enrich my life Harry</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and I love you very much</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-83205355806959040372011-06-07T17:27:00.000+10:002011-06-07T17:27:43.531+10:00another goodbye...!!!!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He was a large puppy</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">an even larger dog</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who had a friendly wag for everyone</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but behind that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cheerful look and wagging tail</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">there lived a fierce protector</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but at 15 years and without Top and Maggie</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">John Wellington Wells (or Wells for short)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">decided on Sunday that it was time for him to go too.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Travel safely Wells till you find the other two.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-2874020071261060802011-05-23T22:48:00.000+10:002011-05-23T22:48:50.419+10:00The tomato lady soup...!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 large onion chopped</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">half a medium pumpkin chopped</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6 - 8 medium ripe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> tomatoes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 cups of chicken stock (4-5 cubes)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 teaspoons crushed garlic</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 teaspoons basil</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Put everything in a soup pot. Bring to the boil, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cover and simmer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> until pumpkin is soft.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Puree and then strain</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Serve with lots of black pepper and sour cream</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once you have made this soup using the recipe above</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you can then improvise like I do</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">garlic not crushed, basil not chopped</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sometimes more pumpkin than tomato</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sometimes the other way round!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and truly, somewhere in there, there is also pumpkin</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Top hated pumpkin soup and really disliked tomato soup</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but this is one of his absolute favourites</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and every year I fill a freezer drawer full.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on Sunday night a warm bowl and some crusty bread </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>WOW!!!</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the height of summer sieve twice </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so it is like velvet and serve cold</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>WOW! </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>WOW!!!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at the moment my freezer is full of many different types of soup</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">made by incredibly wonderful women</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but there is no Tomato Lady Soup!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I thought you might like to try this with me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and we can all share a bowl</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-65112419173492596892011-05-19T23:55:00.000+10:002011-05-19T23:55:05.298+10:00This is my world....!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">surrounded </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wonderful people</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">even with </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a full house </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the loneliness</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is unrelenting!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-90027224640994687652011-05-10T17:19:00.000+10:002011-05-10T17:19:07.755+10:00thinking rationally?....I don't think so.<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My concentration and rational thinking </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">are rather limited at present</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This morning I </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">put the tea bag in the dishwasher</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the spoon in the bin</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Took the wash out of the washing machine</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">went into answer the phone</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">came back out</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">put the wash back in the machine and washed it again!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Maggie joined Top last week</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so they are walking together now.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will come back soon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I thank you all</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the well wishes here and the emails</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Goodnight</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-48521878014417572112011-04-30T20:42:00.000+10:002011-04-30T20:42:12.630+10:00Thank you Kerry<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I can't do this at the moment so </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thank you Kerry from</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <a href="http://tranquiltownhouse.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-friend-needs-our-love-and-care.html">a tranquil townhouse</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for doing it for me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will be back</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and I will need you all</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-38401979662196930522011-04-22T00:25:00.000+10:002011-04-22T00:25:36.905+10:00A very happy Easter<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A decision we do not want to make</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">has to be made this weekend</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so while <b>we</b> see things that are not there</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and wish for things to be different</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and struggle to accept our decision</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and know that it is the right one</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wish all of <b>you</b> a wonderfully</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">happy Easter </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">full of all the joy of this life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that is our gift</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">God bless you all</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-88045490362796405282011-03-19T23:18:00.000+11:002011-03-19T23:18:18.054+11:00a relaxing day and impossible things!!!!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It feels like forever since I have been here!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have so much catching up to do</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that it now seems an impossible task</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Today we went out to lunch</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and I have fallen in love with this building</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it is what I would like our</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">next home to look like </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on a<s> much</s> slightly smaller scale</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the alfresco dining is just beautiful </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the different areas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">make it hard to choose a place to sit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so I tried them all!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This turned out to be my favourite and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">over coffee we discussed other</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">impossible things</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> like ipods and iphones</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">do I get one or both???</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and what is the difference anyway? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But the<b> reason</b> we went to lunch</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> was to celebrate the fact</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that, today,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> I am a whole year younger </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>than I thought I was!!!!!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">( so I am just going to pick up that missing year</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"> and there I intend to stay for the next ten years</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">until people say...</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>poor thing, she hasn't aged at all well has she!!)</b></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">truly, old age can be really quite exciting sometimes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">!</span></span></span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For those of you who think</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am totally mad.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my unwillingness to cut flowers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaLCpcz_YMEemvU50zRI6pllWZOk9dEfm0k4xR83Gu1BopKz8CwTyQGqWTOYk4kQzHmzyPx9csL1b3HuT5Azn37jqu-1pIosEFTcUPlYZdngd7mS73pzKTo_0LBQlvCEWZB-KX-FIj-Fc/s1600/an-almond-tree-near-the.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaLCpcz_YMEemvU50zRI6pllWZOk9dEfm0k4xR83Gu1BopKz8CwTyQGqWTOYk4kQzHmzyPx9csL1b3HuT5Azn37jqu-1pIosEFTcUPlYZdngd7mS73pzKTo_0LBQlvCEWZB-KX-FIj-Fc/s400/an-almond-tree-near-the.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/ReviewPhotos-g147312-d151346-r6777577-Hibiscus_Lodge_Hotel-Ocho_Rios_Jamaica.html">from here</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">began with a tree, twice the size of this</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a chain like this</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hanging from the branches</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="299" src="http://www.eyefetch.com/Contest/contest12313/1273860-608dc569-454f-422f-8655-da84c839815b.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a gentle old lady</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The tree was an almond tree and it was covered in fruit.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The wonderfully gentle elderly woman reached up</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and picked a handful of the dried fruit and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">showed me how to discover the nut inside.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Twice, I hit my head on the chains that were hanging</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from one of the branches</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">(rather nasty, rusty old chain with three heavy strands</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">attached to a ring large enough to put your hand into)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Being the curious type I asked why it was hanging there</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Oh, dear, that's the tree beater"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The what?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The tree beater,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> when we first came here, 50 years ago,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the tree didn't bear fruit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so after a few years </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my Jack put this chain together for me and each year</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I beat the tree, every day for a week, around the trunk,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and it has never failed to produce a crop like this."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well I did have to ask why, didn't I?!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The answer was that apparently almond trees</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">bear more fruit if they are <u>stressed</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and beating the trunk with a heavy chain rope</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>stresses the tree</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now the problem is that I have never forgotten that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and I figure if someone beat me with a chain</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would be stressed to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">because</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it would hurt!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>So</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the question is</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">do you think it is possible that plant life might feel pain?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just in case the answer is yes I no longer </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go on the attack with the secateurs!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What do you think?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Goodnight</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-50279244252084435882011-02-28T21:28:00.001+11:002011-02-28T21:29:15.357+11:00I did promise I'd try....!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have a secret to confess</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but before I tell</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jane you must promise you will still speak to me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>OK</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">promise?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have terrible trouble picking flowers or pruning shrubs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the reason I have trouble is...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am not totally convinced that it is painless</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to the said shrub or flower!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What if the plant is soundlessly screaming</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> as I have at it with the secateurs?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Dumb...I know....really dumb!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but every time I go to cut</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I get this terrible picture in my head and just can't do it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>AND</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that is the reason for my dashing pink paper roses!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and why I enjoy this in my garden </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now to see really beautiful floral arrangements in the home</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <a href="http://flwrjane-smallbutcharming.blogspot.com/2011/02/in-house-march-flower-power.html">Jane at Small but Charming</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and just enjoy her utterly charming blog</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Goodnight </b></span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-6709282363009929272011-02-27T21:46:00.001+11:002011-02-27T21:47:36.893+11:00shades of green....!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Petty jealousy is really very boring!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and not something I normally suffer from</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">...thank goodness!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>BUT... </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a wonderfully eccentric friend </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">rang tonight for a chat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and half way through the conversation said</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go and check out where I have been staying!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so I did</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and I could so see myself lying by the pool</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">enjoying a wee pre dinner drink</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">then settling in for the night</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">perhaps grabbing a good read of the shelves</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and day dreaming</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">after lunch in the shade before another dip</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or wandering through the beautiful gardens</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so I suggested next time she went she had better take me!!!</span></div><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alas....too late</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> as it will probably be sold</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">she replied</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> just slightly</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> tinged </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">green</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> am I!!!!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Goodnight</b></span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-12430125594363589082011-02-22T22:52:00.001+11:002011-02-22T22:54:28.999+11:00We will survive this disastrous summer......!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It started at the beginning of our summer</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with our little flood</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that we thought such a disaster</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ruined crops, roads and fences</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Little did we realise what was in store for </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Toowoomba, the Lockyer Valley, Ipswich</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and Brisbane</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as the rain continued to fall and fall</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As we were recovering from this</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the news that Victoria was suffering it's own destructive flooding</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and more and more people were losing their life's belongings</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">then Western Australia was fighting</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">out of control fires</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But Queensland was still in the line of fire as Cyclone Yasi</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">came hurtling towards the coast</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and cyclone Carlos drowned Darwin with</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26 inches of rain in four hours</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="225" src="http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2011/02/16/1226007/105653-flood-chaos-created-by-cyclone-carlos.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"> <a href="http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/carlos-blacks-out-territory/story-fn6ck4a4-1226007101403">from here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and, as all across Australia,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> we struggled to cope with the aftermath</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of so many major disasters</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we were not prepared for the news</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">out of New Zealand at lunchtime today</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img alt="[Christchurch earthquake]" height="242" src="http://images.brisbanetimes.com.au/file/2011/02/22/2197499/nz-quake-11.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: xx-small;"> <a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/christchurch-earthquake/index.html">from here</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as an earthquake again hit Christchurch</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the damage is horrific</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and as I write this, search and rescue teams</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from Queensland (and the rest of Australia) are on</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">their way to help.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are two strong nations and with each others help</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we will survive</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My prayers are with the people of Christchurch tonight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-78739566711258586262011-02-13T21:08:00.000+11:002011-02-13T21:08:15.281+11:00up and running again...!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks to our local computer shop</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we are back!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The computer has survived</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the modem has not</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(It fried in the heat!!!!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have so much to catch up on</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and it has only been 10 days!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">withdrawal was the pits!!!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>NEWS FLASH</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">they came early to look at the house</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so they saw it warts and all!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">they say they are coming back</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but do I really want them to?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">how mixed up is that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I really, really, really </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">want to move into something</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">much smaller and newer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but I love this house with a passion!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The little bedroom, as we call this one,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">has pink days as above</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or blue days</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and it holds a lot of my favourite treasures</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The fourth bedroom has two </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">French pine beds I found at a swap meet</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the desk is early Australian</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">absolutely useless for anything</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> other than old fashioned letter writing</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh dear when I look at these photos it is</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">really hard to believe that once, I was</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a photographic stylist!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Apparently it only works when I am not holding</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the camera!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If we move where am I going to put all these things</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and how am I going to decide what goes and what stays?!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-83991004377564174082011-02-05T11:20:00.001+11:002011-02-05T11:20:16.314+11:00Crash and burn....!<div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In spectacular circumstances</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">would be a good way to go</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">but </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">no</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;"><div align="center"><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">first the modem... </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">then the computer </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">gave a last </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">heaving gasp </span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;">and quietlycollapsed</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">our computer just could not cope</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">with the weather </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">we are currently having here </span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">We have dropped it into </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">computer hospital but they are not</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">hopeful!</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Alas, a new computer is not high on our</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">priority list just at present</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">so I may be missing for a while.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">I guess that means I will have lots to catch up with</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">when we are back on air.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Depending on how long I will continue to drop in here </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">at the local library on a Saturday morning</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Kerry keep knitting,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Jane keep the flowers coming,</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Tina, I will miss your next great thing</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Sharyne I hope everything is OK</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Renee, what will I do without you!</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">I will miss you all but be back eventually</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Goodnight</span></div><br />
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</div><div align="center"></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-91413622238210207442011-01-29T20:38:00.000+11:002011-01-29T20:38:36.867+11:00The Princess room....!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh dear where does time go?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Late on Wednesday night we received a phone call</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from a gentleman who wanted to know </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">if we would be interested in selling our house</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>yes!</u></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>yes!</u></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>yes!</u></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so, today we started the big clean up and toss out!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They are coming to look in a fortnight so we have a bit of time</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Top discovered we actually have quite a large</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">back verandah</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and I spent the day here</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in the Princess room!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the girls call it the Princess room because of the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">height of the bed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(you almost need a stepladder to climb up!)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and they feel we should put a pea under the mattress!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the pink curtains were, alas, inherited with the house</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and to date we cannot afford to change them</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">(the quotes were quite, quite ridiculous!!!!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The marble mantelpiece holds quite a bit of my</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Don Quixote collection </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The golf stick leaning nonchalantly against the fireplace</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was an award for a hole in one</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not mine alas!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am a total shocker when it comes to golf!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the salon suite is the very first antique I ever bought</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was twelve years old and it cost me 12 pounds!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">the light fitting hiding underneath will one day replace the rather nasty chandelier,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">but tomorrow it will find a spot in the garage out of sight!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the mirror needs to be taken out and painted </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">before it goes above the fireplace</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all our ceilings are pressed metal and the patterns are quite beautiful</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it also needs a bit of a clean but it's so far up I'm afraid </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it will just have to do!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tomorrow I take on the other two guest bedrooms!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight!</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-56594830581985885032011-01-12T23:19:00.000+11:002011-01-12T23:19:33.815+11:00Know when you are on a good thing...!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our son's kitchen bench this morning!</span></div><div class="" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Even this little chap knew to move to higher ground!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a good feed and then he was gently</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> encouraged to move outside</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>****</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is amazing how in disasters like this</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> even the wild life will turn to others for help</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and seem to know that they should just accept it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and it is happening all over the East coast of our country</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-86369923847929788202011-01-11T19:41:00.000+11:002011-01-11T19:41:58.571+11:00the worst is yet to come....!<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is not the post I was going to write today</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but as we wait to hear news</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of our son and his beautiful family</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of A-M and the boys</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and all our other friends </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wonder is there a family</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in Australia</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">unaffected by the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">horrendous news coming out of </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Queensland</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and now North Western New South Wales</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with 9 confirmed dead</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and 66 still missing</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the death toll is bad enough</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but on top of this</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6500 homes will go under in Brisbane</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in the next two days</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and already hundreds of houses </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and businesses</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">have been lost</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The rain is not easing</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the wall of water that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">became an inland tsunami in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Toowoomba and was responsible</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the lost lives</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is racing down the valley</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> toward the Capital</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to meet a King Tide</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>I ask</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that tonight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you <b>light a candle</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>say a prayer</b> and <b>think</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>of all those</b> in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Queensland who have lost</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">nearly everything they possess</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and for whom the worst</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is yet to come</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Night</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-70089269005235106172011-01-04T00:47:00.000+11:002011-01-04T00:47:32.719+11:00Finally...older than me!!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have just told a friend</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that I am not</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a metal kinda girl!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> only to realise </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that one of my favourite pieces in our home</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is just that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">metal!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Actually it is worse than metal it is</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">onyx and gilt!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>way, way, way over the top!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh dear! Do you think </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I should have dusted it before taking these?! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">the floor could have done with a good mop too!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Half way up are the hooks for an umbrella </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or parasol </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as it is a French piece</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then at the top the hat goes at a jaunty angle</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">don't you just love the hanger for the coat? (wide and rounded</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so no mark was left on the jacket)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and then a small hook for a cane!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There it stands in all it's over the top glory</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I understand it is French probably mid 1800's</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and if any one has seen one like it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or knows anything about it I would love to hear.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It normally hold a red Fez that UK daughter brought home</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for her Father</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="305" src="http://www.turkishemporium.co.uk/images/products/REDFEZ.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My Father's pith helmet, rather aged and tired</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but it was well worn during the 2nd World War</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_BgIiqs39n0PA8P1R-TaNQIR_kZl44iuP6TeqCabrptmYwUZeX7LLpLmvTBjCj4i8I3eAlFkE4GG-3g9oAruZd4hnFn_HBi50rXGiZr9uScgJxFhl4Y56qedRoeOZkb-KyDI-xu2aNhQ4/s320/lm164_pith_helmet.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a Malacca cane. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So maybe, just maybe a could be a</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>metal kinda girl!!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Goodnight</b></span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-42708619152571864012010-12-30T18:12:00.000+11:002010-12-30T18:12:00.877+11:00You are invited......<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To join Top and me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/">here</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at Arias</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> tomorrow night</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="400" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/restaurant/24-Private-dining-room_long-table-3.jpg" width="265" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">when we</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">celebrate</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">our 40th Wedding Anniversary!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">(I was of course a child bride, barely legal!!!!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at first we had thought to eat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at the chef's table</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="270" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/restaurant/26-Aria_sydney.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">until I realised it was not big</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">enough to fit you all in!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and also you would miss the view</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of Sydney Harbour!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="173" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/restaurant/25-Aria_Sydney4.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we will start with champagne here and enjoy</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the lovely sea breeze </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/restaurant/22-ARIA-Sydney-Terrace.jpg" width="318" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">then when we have all arrived we will wander in here</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="242" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/restaurant/21-ARIA-Sydney-Section2.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and let Chef Matt Moran</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="400" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/restaurant/29-Matt-Moran-and-Peter-Sullivan.jpg" width="270" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">feed us!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="249" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/food/05-Cigar-of-goat-curd-with-a-salad-of-fig-asparagus-Serrano-ham-and-pistachio.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> figs and asparagus are really beautiful at present</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="269" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/food/09-Slow-cooked-fillet-and-short-rib-of-beef-with-celeriac-puree-roasted-onions-and-Bordelaise-sauce.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and just look at this piece of steak.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I may have to share some of this with someone else</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as I need to leave room for desert</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and as I could not make up my mind</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">which desert to offer you I chose a few!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="294" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/food/13-fig-and-vanilla-bombe-Alaska-pistachio-nuts-yoghurt-and-orange-sorbet.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you could be led to believe that I am a fan of figs...not true</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this dish just looked so beautiful I could not leave it off!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="199" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/food/16-Valhrona-chocolate-assiette.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am, however, a chocoholic and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> will not share a bite of this with anyone</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="279" src="http://www.ariarestaurant.com/images/aria/gallery/sydney/food/17%20MLF09_AriaAug_8.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in fact I may even have to have this one as well!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have watched Matt Moran on Masterchef and his </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">food always looks so beautiful...I am getting really excited</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">about this and of course</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">seeing you all there!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">until tomorrow</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goodnight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">P.S. in reality we are going for lunch to a very nice restaurant about 100ks from here!! </span></div>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951295463270151861noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340590662670087668.post-90146876883195343162010-12-29T01:14:00.002+11:002012-03-20T09:29:18.623+11:00the 12 days of an Australian Christmas....<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After six weeks of Christmas everywhere I look</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it has just plain disappeared,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to hide away until next year</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>but</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am not finished with Christmas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for me it lasts until the eve </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of the epiphany January 5th</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">our Christmas decorations</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> stay up until the twelfth day of Christmas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a tradition that has always been in my family</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and thinking about that reminded me </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of one of my favourite Christmas</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> songs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The Twelve days of Christmas</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so I borrowed an</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Australian version from</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.jaybees.com.au/carols/12days.html">jaybees entertainment</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me<br />
A kookaburra in a gum tree</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="260" src="http://places.mongabay.com/australia/kookaburra.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me<br />
Two cockatoos, </span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a kookaburra in a gum tree</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="278" src="http://blog.nus.edu.sg/lsm2251student/files/2010/04/436317572_ae27057dd21.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Three parakeets.........</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><center style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Two cockatoos, </span></center><center style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a kookaburra in a gum tree</span></center><div><br />
</div></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="252" src="http://contenido2.wambie.com/noticia/1945.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Four great galahs,</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Three parakeets,</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><center style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Two cockatoos, </span></center><center style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and a kookaburra in a gum tree</span></center><div><br />
</div></span></center></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="300" src="http://www.scenicreflections.com/files/Hungry_Galahs_Wallpaper_qfrju.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Five opals black......</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">(etc fill in the rest yourself otherwise my fingers will seize up!!!!)</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="300" src="http://static.opalauctions.com/uploads/images/145000-149999/148866/148866_1231198175.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me </span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Six 'roos a-jumping........</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="207" src="http://www.rictus.com/viz/photos/nature/white-kangaroo.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seven emus running.......</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="289" src="http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/australia/emus_flinders_ranges_australia_photo_mike_newling.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eight koalas clinging.........</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="262" src="http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Animals/Archives/2007/~/media/Content/National%20Wildlife%20Magazine%20Layouts/2007/Koalas_JJ07_3.ashx?w=534&h=350&as=1" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nine wombats waddling........</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="312" src="http://theprofessionalhobo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/poppy-4.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me<br />
Ten dingoes dashing.......</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="240" src="http://www.animalcorner.co.uk/wildlife/graphics/dingo.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me<br />
Eleven snakes a-sliding.......</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="256" src="http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/5953/Red-bellied-Black-Snake_big.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></center><center><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me<br />
Twelve goannas going.......</span></center><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></center><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><img height="330" src="http://www.walkaboutpark.com.au/UserFiles/Image/MainPhoto/goanna2.jpg" width="400" /></span></center><center><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">image via <a href="http://walkaboutpark.com.au/index.php?id=228">Rebecca Hamby with thanks</a></span> <span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">you can </span></span><a href="http://happyhambycampers.blogspot.com.au/" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">see her here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me<br />
Twelve goanna goin,</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Eleven snakes a-sliding,<br />
Ten dingoes dashing, </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nine wombats waddling,<br />
Eight koalas clinging,</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Seven emus running,<br />
Six 'roos a-jumping, </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Five opals black,<br />
Four great galahs, </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Three parakeets,<br />
Two cockatoos, </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And a kookaburra up a gum tree.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;"><b>and all the images are from Google images</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Goodnight</b></span></center></td></tr>
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