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And four hours later…
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ade a small start on a biggish project. Mostly it involved just checking my stash and measuring and counting and calculating stuff and generally making plans, so no pretty pictures to show for it. But I made a start, at least. Actually, my biggest problem was deciding what to do – all semester I’ve been…
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um arrived last night for a week’s visit (I’ve only been inviting her to come up to Christchurch for about a year…). I’ve got to be at work for most of the week (though I did manage to book a couple of days off), so I think we’ll both survive the visit with sanity intact…
Feeling lucky
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Well done on the growth of your cucumber. Young Cucumber is certainly a fighter, and will be most comfortable in a mini salad,
It’s going to be one of those mini salads that they serve at posh cocktail parties on spoons, isn’t it? So mini that the entire salad is about half a mouthful…