Piss off cancer and leave my friends alone

I’ve just got off the phone to one of my old friends from uni – she has endometrial cancer. F@!#@! Surgery on Friday and then they will determine what treatment she needs. She’s feeling positive that they have it earlier and the prognosis will be good. I’m pleased about this.I am pleased she has a [...]

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Foxton in the news – for good reasons!

A nice writeup about Foxton -  I am experimenting here with a link to a digital version of a newspaper via Library Press Display.  LPD is only available via subscription, but you can access “free views” of pages that are emailed to you, or that are blogged. Manawatu Standard 01 Apr 2009

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What does your hair color mean???

what does your hair color mean??? black sheek and stylish should be your first name! you are beautiful, and love to be in the presence of others. you have loving qualities to you that everyone adors! people love to hear your thoughts. you are stylish, funny, happy, and loving! Fun quizzes, surveys & blog quizzes [...]

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The year so far ….

Its been a fairly quiet start to the year for me – have been concentrating on things around the house over the last few days. We have got one of the double windows at the front of the house repainted so that was a good thing to get ticked off the list. We also painted [...]

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Things I might do as this year ends and a new one begins

I had friends over for dinner last night and there was a bit of talk about what we might do next year – I couldn’t really articulate what I was thinking but have thought about it a bit more today and this is what I have so far ..   1.  Tackle another paper for [...]

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Colossal squid going on display in December!

The colossal squid is going on display at Te Papa in December – fantastic stuff!! http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/09/05/squid-countdown/

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