A life just as ordinary

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Seeking work – Job Application #1- the one with stock market tips and a recipe

This arrived in the in-box today, unsolicited email looking for employment, as they do now and again. This one stood out though as it contains Stock Market tips, and a recipe! … Continue reading

January 26, 2012 · Leave a comment

Frowning week: Farms / Dotcom / Unions / Breakfast TV

I can’t get along with the media this week, or the bits of it that have caught my eye and attention, It might be the back to work blues, it … Continue reading

January 26, 2012 · Leave a comment

Thursday

Follow my blog with Bloglovin That awkward day between Wednesday and Dress-in-the-dark-day, and to celebrate I added some bloglovin’. Who knows.

January 26, 2012 · Leave a comment

The Phoenix – Late of Wellington – at home but not a home.

Don’t get me wrong if I was called out and asked to declare my support then it’s be the Phoenix all the way, despite them being half a country away.

January 24, 2012 · Leave a comment

Beer – #7 in a series – 3 Monts

if you’re looking to impress yourself, or your friends this would be the go!

January 22, 2012 · 1 Comment

Trying Teen Times – Part the Seventh – Getting your life back

not getting another cat, that would be a bit of a win. I’m sure we don’t want to become crazy pet people who substitute dogs or cats for kids and tie themselves with a badge of courage for doing so

January 22, 2012 · Leave a comment

Beer – #6 in a series – Fursty Ferret

I had some of this. Badger’s Fursty Ferret It comes in hand pint-sized bottle, so it’s just like being in a pub when you’re drinking it from a sleeve (As opposed … Continue reading

January 21, 2012 · 3 Comments

Megaupload – Faux Outrage

Bit of a pigs ear then, the “authorities” could have closed down the business, and frozen assets under various RICO and money laundering / income from crime statutes I imagine without the drama of extradition and display, which in the end would result in one man in jail for a few years for being a visionary.

January 20, 2012 · Leave a comment

How not to do Social Media – the RT This! Lady

Like I’m an expert at it. But there are some things that just prickle, and this is one of them. I’d like to think that I’m pretty inoffensive and mild, … Continue reading

January 19, 2012 · 1 Comment

Trying Teen Times – the grown up one – Part the Sixth – A New Car

Well we found a car, a very low mileage two owner Mazda Astina 1994 – which makes it only slightly younger that the #Boychild, and so we brought it.  It comes as … Continue reading

January 17, 2012 · Leave a comment

Beer – #5 in a series – 8 Wired Saison Sauvin

I’m not generally a fan of that style of beer this one is a little bit special and very tasty

January 15, 2012 · 1 Comment

Beer – #4 in a series – Cider!

I had cider in the fridge, it called to me, and I answered What’s there to say about Magners Cider except that it’s really Bulmers cider by any other name. … Continue reading

January 12, 2012 · 1 Comment

Trying Teen Times – the grown up one – Part the Fifth – Cars

A couple of years ago #Boychild wanted a car, and we made him save his hard-earned cash for one. It was only a ‘bomb’, and was never going to last … Continue reading

January 12, 2012 · 2 Comments

Under the Auckland Harbour Bridge #1

I was as about as underneath the Auckland harbour bridge as you could be  today and I saw this. It was beyond a fence line. Curiosity and all that I … Continue reading

January 11, 2012 · 25 Comments

Beer – #3 in a series – The Cornish Wheat Beer

The label indicates that it has a superb citrus finish, I’ve just started it so perhaps that comes nearer the end, because it seems to be missing in action in this bottle.

January 10, 2012 · 1 Comment

Cupcakes

It took me a while to visit Delicious Cupcakes, and I’ve yet to eat the products. Will I revisit? well the proof will be in the pudding so to speak

January 10, 2012 · 2 Comments

The Gentleman’s Fishing Club

What you need, and all you need  is; A Seahorse KonTiki unit, complete with the electric winch. Some bait A beach A couple of hours Optional Beverage The idea of one … Continue reading

January 9, 2012 · 2 Comments

The Other Bucket List

This list is be about things that I have no personal interest in participating in as things. They hold no allure, fascination or attraction to me

January 8, 2012 · 2 Comments

At the beach: some things ever change

It is nice to have something’s that never change.

January 4, 2012 · Leave a comment

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I did all this!

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