Thanks so much everyone,did not hear from him yesterday,but hopefully today.
Motorbo,I knew something was up,something better will come along,soon you won,t know yourself lol.
Waving to everyone else,off to town today,have a wonderful day all.

earthangel4 - 2012-09-20 06:56:00

gosh its cold, so happy i have wincy sheets on the bed and pjs lol. my flght was meant to take off at 6.50 pm the crew rushed through the departure lounge at 7.05!! made for a late arrival in nz I can tell you. have discovered that coles chocolate is belgin (sp) yum yum yum so 6 bars back this time as well as the manditory choc chip biscuits, we brought back 1/3 a jar marmite last time, we thought it was going to get conficated at the airport lol, certainly hanging out for it to be back on the shelves. hope evryone has a lovely day.

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auckland_ali - 2012-09-22 06:04:00

Yes its nice and "Fresh" here lol. Weather looks like its going to be stunning though.
Meeting a couple of girlfriend for a walk first thing... then the compulsory columbus good coffee and poached eggs.
The container got pick up during the week so hubby and I are going to spend today sorting out and clearing up the section... then off netball prize giving and on to Ma & Pa's for dinner... good times. Then tommorrow mmmm.... chillling I think is in order.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Take Care
JBx

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toadfish - 2012-09-22 06:25:00

thanks EA, i had hoped to hear yesterday but didnt, just thought of something i hadnt told you all...ive noticed organic goods in the supermarket here are often the same price or a tiny weeny bit dearer, so im buying alot more organic...its not the same for fruit and vege, but frozen, cans, jars, and meat are comparable...e.g frozen peas, peanut butter, beef, tomato sauce etc.

motorbo - 2012-09-22 17:56:00

Page 3 girls again ... we'll be getting a reputation soon!

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cookessentials - 2012-09-27 13:39:00

so good to see this back in its proper place - page 1

rema - 2012-09-28 08:12:00

Waves hello to everyone, 3.30 and 28 degrees apparently I can expect early high temperatures and then it will settle down, I think I will be buying a Sun hat !! Walked around the botanic gardens, opera house and the art gallery today visitors are carrying on across harbour bridge happy to jump on a airconditioned train home. Heading back to jervois bay this weekend, did you get to the butter factory pam? Or was it noosa that you were on holiday.

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elliehen - 2012-10-09 15:17:00

elliehen wrote:

Hi Pam et al...I've been in OZ too...just had my annual Melbourne holiday, with so much indulgent eating that I need to redeem myself before it all starts again at Christmas.

I caught the comedy gig of the Mime Clown who won this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival - 'Dr Brown', whose act was so brazenly interactive that I cowered in case I was hauled out of the audience for humiliation - or theatre sports, depending on how you look at it - as two of our party of four did. I saw South Pacific in the grand old 1880s theatre, keen to hear NZ opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes in a musical, with his co-star Lisa McClune (of Blue Heelers etc). I caught Jack Kerouac's movie On the Road and the AFL final on TV which always stirs Melbourne into a frenzy and I managed to fill each 24 hour day with enough activity for 48!

I think if I lived in Melbourne I'd find a cool minimalist apartment without a real kitchen, as Mayor Bloomberg of New York City is suggesting to create new affordable apartments for young Manhattanites. When there are so many places to eat well right on the doorstep and so much fun to have outside the house, why slave over a hot stove!

Elliehen tres jealous!

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elliehen - 2012-10-10 14:28:00

Ellie - was Teddy singing well? I know he'd pass with flying colours in the hunk stakes!

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elliehen - 2012-10-10 17:02:00

Our Ted has quite a reputation!

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elliehen - 2012-10-10 19:30:00

A lot of ex Kiwi musos over there, Wilma is certainly missed.

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fortytoo - 2012-10-17 18:20:00

Hi Everyone.. I've been thinking of you all, hope all is well for each of you. it's ages since I've read the posts here.. lovely to catch up with you all :-)

It must be a Melbourne time of year.. I've been there till last week, enjoying my time there and also was nurse to Chris.. he had knee reconstruction surgery - needed after a mountain biking accident, and when Sarah, his Partner, was at work, I was number one carer :-) Chris was delighted when I suggested I go over - Sarah and I were together when Chris got back from theatre, after hugs for Sarah, he reached his arms out and said, 'wow, look at you here Mum!' awww... :-)

He had one operation where part of his cartilage was removed, then the week later they left on holiday.. he was Bestman for a friend in Vancouver - he and Sarah had a month in Vancouver, New York and Mexico,and returned to Melbourne the week before his second surgery. He's healing well..

Ellie, one of the things we did was go to South Pacific..I agree with you about Teddy Tahu Rhodes being a bit wooden.

Prior to that I was nurse for Jenni's Partner - Andrew had shoulder surgery and I went to help there too, and to have time with them both.. he's healing well too, can't wait to get back to work and was disappointed when the surgeon said last week that he's off for at least another month. We're away again from Sunday.. then I plan to be home for a while.. love being away.. even better being home.. :-)

My garden looked amazing when we returned home - fruit tree blossom everywhere, some finishing, some in full flower, some just starting to blossom - cherry, apple, peach, plum, pear, grapefruit, orange, mandarin, lime, lemonade, fig, tamarillo, blueberry, guava, persimmon, apricot, grape, nectarine, etc.. several tree's of different types of some of those fruits.. and including the amazing new 'Mabel' nectarine - named for a lady in Hamilton who found a seedling tree beneath her blackboy peach tree.. grew it and it turned out to be a nectarine tree with deep maroon leaves, and a similar colour skin with white flesh.. I tried some last summer from an orchard, just divine, and planted a tree in autumn. I've planted the tree so it'll be behind and to the side of my tallest and most beautiful weeping kowhai tree, then a deep pink manuka to the other side.. apples nearby, and an amazing deep maroon acer.. the colours together will be quite something to see each Spring.

I grow a lot of plants to feed bee's, bumblebee's and butterflies.. and have a wealth of them throughout my garden.. my experience is that growing a lot of flowers that bee's love - particularly herbs, and including borage growing beneath and between fruit tree's, means that bee's will be in my garden - it's worked beautifully here, and it's lovely to see them here in great number's.

Does anyone know of a lemon type that would fruit during Winter here in the Bay of Plenty.. I have a gap in fruit from my lemon tree's during winter and would love to grow another tree to fill that gap. Not Lisbon or Meyer.. I'm hoping there is something for that timing. Will check with my garden centre too.

I made orange marmalade and lemon and orange marmalade earlier tonight.. 7 jars of each to share, might make another batch.. made some with just lemon's too last Spring.. Jenni's favourite.. yes please Mum! lol..

Have a wonderful Friday.. and a Labour weekend that's just the way you want it to be... ciao...

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elliehen - 2012-10-19 10:25:00

Hi all & Happy Labour weekend :)
I hope the weather is gardening-friendly where you are and the only labouring you are doing is in your gardens.
I'm enjoying the day & my birthday at work ...
One of my colleagues put a sign on the back of my computer screen saying that it's my birthday so everyone who has come in to the i-SITE today has given me their best wishes :) I'm feeling the love lol!

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cookessentials - 2012-10-22 18:00:00

hope you had a lovely birthday Winnie

motorbo - 2012-10-23 00:42:00

Birthday wishes for Winnie - have a great day

rema - 2012-10-23 09:42:00

A very happy birthday Winnie,hope its a good one xxxooo

earthangel4 - 2012-10-23 10:37:00

Thanks for the nice wishes everyone :)
I had a very quiet night at home alone but Miss 15 had been over for the weekend so we had my birthday tea courtesy of the noodle canteen on Sunday night.
Hope you're both well again now Pam xx
Mum has given us a scare with heart pains & got a ride to hospital in an ambulance yesterday. They are keeping her there while doing more tests ... she's in good spirits but it's very worrying.

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cookessentials - 2012-10-24 21:10:00

winnie231 wrote:

Thanks for the nice wishes everyone :)
I had a very quiet night at home alone but Miss 15 had been over for the weekend so we had my birthday tea courtesy of the noodle canteen on Sunday night.
Hope you're both well again now Pam xx
Mum has given us a scare with heart pains & got a ride to hospital in an ambulance yesterday. They are keeping her there while doing more tests ... she's in good spirits but it's very worrying.

Thinking of you and your mum winnie,just know she is in the best place,and not at home alone. xxxoooo

earthangel4 - 2012-10-25 14:59:00

Here,s wishing our lovely cooks a very happy birthday today,same day as my brothers.
Hope you have a good one hun xxxooo

earthangel4 - 2012-10-26 11:02:00

Happy Birthday Pamela :) I hope you have a lovely day & special delicious dinner somewhere nice xx

winnie231 - 2012-10-26 11:24:00

Mum is still in hospital with ongoing tests. I know they are taking good care of her but it's still worrying and I feel frustrated being so far away from her.

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elliehen - 2012-10-26 11:36:00

winnie231 wrote:

Mum is still in hospital with ongoing tests. I know they are taking good care of her but it's still worrying and I feel frustrated being so far away from her.

Angel hugs xxxxoooo

earthangel4 - 2012-10-26 13:02:00

Thanks EA (and Cooks).

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cookessentials - 2012-10-26 21:16:00

oh i missed your Bday Pam, hope you had a fabulous day and winnie hope your mum is ok

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cookessentials - 2012-10-27 19:39:00

A belated Happy Birthday Rae and Pamela.. hope you both had special days to celebrate..

How is your Mum Rae? I hope she's healing well and is home again.. thinking of her and of you..

Waves hi to everyone.. :-)

Hi Ellie.. yes a lemonade tree is in the list in my post.. after leaving it to grow for a while without flowering, flowers are on it now for its first crop next year and I'm looking forward to the fruit.. my friends would probably think I was eating a lemon, as they're one of my favourite fruit's.. and yes I eat them freshly peeled and tart and delicious.. my kids think it's no accident one of my Meyer tree's is growing outside the master bedroom here! I'm also growing a Tahitian Lime to eat fresh also.. first flowers on that too.. so many tiny fruit are on tree's all throughout my gardens, lucky there's lot's of space here.. I now have growing 56 fruit tree's/vines/plants.. and room to add a few more..

I love the mandarin's that are currently in shops, I think both the NZ and Australian mandarin's available are the same type.. thin skinned though fairly easily peeled by hand, juicy and flavoursome.. does anyone know what they are??

Take good care all..

juliewn - 2012-10-30 22:15:00

TGIF!!!
I'm ready for a day off .... and it's going to be the one wet day we get this week. Murphy's Law aye?!!

Mum's out of hospital again but not doing that great yet. The tests really knocked her around - but in her words "She's a tough old bird". I hope she's right.

Hi Julie - your garden sounds wonderful :) You need to share a photo of it with us sometime.
My brother gave me Bunnings vouchers for my birthday so I'm off to spend them on my plants for my container garden tomorrow.

Waves to everyone else - including the lurkers :)
I know there are folks who pop in here but never say anything.
Please feel free to say hi and introduce yourself ... new friends are always welcome.

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elliehen - 2012-11-11 22:37:00

Pan you are sounding very well from how under the weather you were a few months ago. Good luck with your trip, we had a drive around the southern Highlands yesterday beautiful spots amazing waterfall at fitzroy and there are some lovely winery's we brought some amazing rosé wine at mount ashby estate the couple there have an old shed filled to the brim with French antiques they go every year and buy chandeliers etc . So another spot worth having a look at and not far from where you are going. Hope your mum is coming right Winnie. I don't come on thread so often as my dual life keeps me busy lol. Last month we had 3 days where we didn't have people staying that was sydney as well as NZ, there is so much to see in sydney there's always something else on, there's a ballet exhibition on the state library just started the spaces in theses buildings just blows one away, my fav is the art gallery and I generally walk down through the botanical gardens to the opera house and around to circular quay and get the train home on Friday I was sweating my way throu the gardens stopped for lunch in the museum of contempory art which looks over circular quay the heavens opened and 20 cent piece sized hailstones came down - all had on was a sleepless top and it was fine apparently it is quite common for the rain to start and hailstones follow!,

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cookessentials - 2012-11-12 15:13:00

oh i didnt realise you found an answer Pam, pleased to hear though. hope everyone is well and pleased to hear mum is ok winnie. im doing ok here. new job and im liking it, hoping it will take me to where i wanna be.....anyways just wanted to say a quick hi to all

motorbo - 2012-11-14 01:42:00

Morning all,
Motorbo so glad you have found a new job,was wondering how you were.
Pam so glad you have found an answer.
I am good with my thyroid,on different meds now,so losing weight,not so tired.
Waving to everyone else.

earthangel4 - 2012-11-14 08:04:00