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Let's hear it for Volunteer Fire Brigades
They do a stirling job and none moreso than the brigades of Central Hawke's Bay. Yesterday they averted a potential disaster after a glider crash on an airfield.
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Chicken and Brie Pie
Original Recipe (my adjustments follow on) 1 small cooked chicken (cooled) 4 sheets flaky or filo pastry (need more filo) 1 onion 1 tblsp butter 1 large bunch spinach / silverbeet roughly chopped 1/2 teaspn grated nutmeg 250gm…
Orchestrated Goodbye
"Ok. You all stand in a line over there and wave goodbye as the helicopter takes off. " I hate orchestrated crap like this. It's such a fake.
R.I.P. Ron Asheton
Guitarist for Iggy and The Stooges. Dead at the age of 60.
The Past I : Moments of Weirdness
As soon as I saw the pig sitting on the couch I should have known the weekend would hold its moments of weirdness.
Timaru: The dog
One thing I forgot to mention about this B&B is the dog. It's a huge slavering beast of a thing that greets you at the door and. . .
To Timaru!
Camille is driving and we are just south of Ashburton on our way to Timaru where Camille has a course graduating later today.
Conference IV: Thrash's Psychedelic Breakfast
Over the past few days I have noted that the hotel's choice of music in the restaurant can be a little odd but this morning's offering really threw me.
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Conference I
"You know what I'd like to do", he said. "I'd like to grow my beard and hair long like yours, get on a Harley and just ride across Australia.