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Plumbing Update

  As you all know, I had an overflowing drain problem in my bathroom, which is also my laundry and the toilet is in there too. Plumbers were arranged on Friday and arrived on Saturday, pipes were reamed out and tree roots blockages removed as much as possible. All was well by Saturday evening.  For a while.  Sunday morning my toilet began making the usual gurgling sucking noises that indicated things were not well. I hoped it would settle down, after all the pipes had been cleared, right?  It's Monday morning now, 4:31am as I type this and I have been up since 2am which is when I woke to the sounds of the drain overflowing.  Again!  I've never seen so much sludge (and poop too) and what appears to be noodles from chicken noodle soup. I don't eat chicken noodle soup.  I laid newspapers to soak up as much of the mess as possible and gingerly stepped around and over to rescue things I'd need when bathing and washing my hair in the kitchen sink.  I'll...

Sunday Selections #721

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 Long ago, Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Wisewebwoman has also been joining us more often. this month's calendar page, I wasn't able to find a Sugar Skulls/Day of the Dead calendar for this year. Our Victoria Square Christmas tree, the same as every year for quite a while now, with its red and gold bows, the gold at least is a bit glittery. street decorations were minimal Rundle Mall had a giant inflatable Santa-with-camera surrounded by some small trees in my own neighbourhood this was the only house decoration I could f...

Wednesday's Words on a Friday

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  The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words. This month the words/prompts are supplied by Elephant's Child and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. beginning 2. masquerade 3. towel 4. shadow 5. life  and/or:  1. ending 2. spring 3. journey 4. forager 5. high Also including Charlotte's colour of the month which is " New Start Yellow" Here is my story: I first met Michael at a masquerade ball in Paris. It was the spring of 1955 and he was posing as a guest, as was I. He called himself a forager , but instead of foraging for foods, he foraged for riches. ...

Sunday Selections #721

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 Long ago, Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please.  Nothing rude or vulgar though. And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us. The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look. Wisewebwoman has also been joining us more often. Beginning on my front porch: a spider has made his or her home in this potplant there is the quite large entrance hole someone has been trying to break into some of the garages down behind the flats. I don't know what this is, but isn't it pretty? It's growing over the fence by the garages from a house on the next street. white agapanthus against a brilliant blue sky in my front yard my white geranium is blooming too though the flo...

Wednesday's Words on a Friday

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  The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words. This month the words/prompts are supplied by Wisewebwoman and can be found here This week's words/prompts are:  1. wreath 2. pine 3. ribbon 4. stealth 5. chimney  and/or:  1. toboggan 2. wolf 3. plum pudding 4. ambience 5. blizzard Also including Charlotte's colour of the month Light Blue. Here is my story: Joe aimed for stealth , but needing a cane to get around made that a bit difficult, still he was as quiet as he could be while getting out the old pine wreath his Kate had made so many years ago. He noticed the red ribbon ...

it's the 25th already???

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 Merry Christmas!! those are my Christmas Earrings decorating a mini fake bonsai a couple of vintage Santas from 2019 Have a great day and stay safe!

Christmas Cards

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  Jabblog has featured her collection of Christmas Coffee Mugs recently and has mentioned that Christmas Cards and her mugs frequently feature idyllic images of snowscapes and pretty villages. When I was a child, cards here in Australia also featured idyllic snow covered scenes at Christmas, with robins, holly and berries, or Glittering Christmas Trees with fake snow on them.  Some time ago, Australian themed Christmas Cards began to appear in our stores and I thought my overseas blog friends might like to see a few of them. 'Tis the Sea-Sun! Let it Snow ELSEWHERE! Christmas Wishes from Down Under Merry Christmas Mate! Have a Fair Dinkum Christmas Merry Christmas Christmas Wishes I found a star to hang in my room A Nordic Gnome to stand guard in the laundry My 68 years old Elf still merrily plays his saxophone. Behind him to the right is a Tree ornament, a "snow" encrusted TARDIS with a holly wreath on the door. and I even found my one-and-only Christmas mug. No snowy sc...