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The ups and downs
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Preparing tonight for tomorrow’s adventure. Tikitapu 23km which it appears may well be 24.5km! 900m of ascent and 795m of descent with ‘ropes provided to assist as you traverse the ridge line above the lake’. Bring on the challenge!
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Another twist in the political world for 2016. We thought it couldn’t get worse than Brexit. But the power of the rhetoric of fear has won the hearts and minds of the uneducated white males of America and they came out to make their voices heard. The unimaginable has happened and the world has a new President. What was a joke has become reality. Cartoon courtesy of First Dog on the Moon.
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A photo fast today – it rained, I worked. Oh, I also had my eye treatment and a mammogram. No time for photos so I’m cheating again and posting my boys…
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A day of sun and very heavy showers and a lot of wind. I love walking barefoot across the grass after the rain. And I love the flowers that I can see from my office window. .. orange and yellow roses and white lily of the valley.
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Finished decorating the toilet them went for a walk /run round Lake Ngaroto. Beautiful clouds today.
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Fireworks are exploding all around us! Guy Fawkes seems a strange thing to ‘celebrate’ in NZ so far from the British Houses of Parliament. The 5th November is also the date when 1600 volunteer and Armed Constabulary troops attacked a peaceful protest against land confiscations at Parihaka on behalf of the NZ government. It seems a more fitting historic event to remember in NZ at this time of year (though not to celebrate) and fireworks certainly wouldn’t be appropriate. I don’t think we could replace one with the other, though. There is a movement to have a date around this time of year to commemorate the NZ Wars in some way. But it can’t be 5th November because the tradition of Guy Fawkes is just too strong.
Anyway, today’s photo has nothing to do with fireworks! It’s a white poppy bejewelled with raindrops that I spotted on a walk today!
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MOVEMBER: Men’s health awareness month. Because although men seem to be dying when they get ‘man flu’, when they really have something wrong they don’t say anything! Prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health are taboo subjects .
So this evening two young men put their beards and their hair on the line to raise funds for Movember. Steven from Craft Hamilton and Ben from Little George had their beards and heads shaved. Great job boys!
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This was my greeting this morning in my office. Love cats but not the presents they bring. Fortunately, she’s not very good so presents are rare.
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More from the garden. The roses are blooming madly. Beautifully velvety and such perfect raindrops!
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Watching my globe artichoke grow. I can now see it from my office desk. Nearly ready to eat!
