Lists and Plaits and Fry and Laurie. And an odd dream. (Not necessarily in that order)

I have had a quite-busy couple of days.  I’ve done one entire list (‘things to buy for Brownies before I leave’), and crossed a few off another list or two.  This included making ‘wands’ for my Brownies who had their enrolment ceremony this evening, which I was up till about 3.30 this morning doing (my [...]

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‘In the true spirit of the public holiday’

Last night my Guiding district had a sleepover camp.  11 leaders and 44 girls ranging in age from 5 -16 crammed into a church hall and played games (including launch the chicken!), learnt sign language, and sung around an electric campfire.  The purpose of this was to march in the ANZAC day dawn service parade [...]

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DWTS and an awesome book.

So it’s Dancing With the Stars time again.  I don’t watch a lot of reality TV anymore.  I used to love it all – Big Brother, Idol, etc but now DWTS is pretty much it.  I don’t know why this is, since I just KNOW that it will start to piss me off at some [...]

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Music Monday: Where the Wild Roses Grow – Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave

I never used to be a fan of Kylie Minogue.  In fact I used to pretty much hate her. These days I sort of love her.  I think this was one of the songs that sent me on that path.  I was watching J2 one day and this clip came on.  I don’t know about [...]

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Biscuits and the Near-Square Merger. And your opinions on yeast spreads.

All of a sudden, Biscuit Week appears to be upon us!  I am of course referring to Girl Guide Biscuits.  This has been lots of fun for me since I pretty much have sole charge of my unit now, and wasn’t actually around for Biscuit time last year so I’m kind of going off what [...]

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My Brain is on Holiday

Which is how I totally forgot to do Music Monday this week.  I spent the weekend at my Dad’s for my other 21st (one of the few good things about having divorced parents – two of everything!), which included a list of dares from a friend (the same friend who invited TK from Shortland Street [...]

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Rediscovering My McLeod’s Daughters Addiction

So the other day I was bored and procrastinating on the internet and ended up on IMDB reading over profiles of TV shows I like, including McLeod’s.  The Quotes section made me feel particularly nostalgic so today I took advantage of the fact that nobody else was at home and I pulled out my season [...]

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A weekend away. And some names.

After that veritable slew of posts last week, the last seven days have been sadly(?) devoid of any blog action. Last Thursday I handed in my last writing assignment, which I’m still not sure if I like, and ends kind of abruptly, but I had to hand it in before I went away, so I [...]

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