Category: DAY TRIPS
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Pizza Experiments + Ordinary Gratitude
Pizza oven experiments with keto bases reveal taste preferences and household compromises. Finding gratitude in my ordinary day – from Nespresso, to My Hero’s methodical problem-solving approach to broken appliances. Sometimes the mundane days require more effort to appreciate, but the simple victories still deserve recognition and celebration.
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12 REPEATS = 1,004 STEPS – EVEN IN THE RAIN
Rain didn’t stop a personal best today – 1,004 steps climbed across 12 repeats, even getting drenched in the process. Brief sunshine through the kitchen window, promising recruitment marketing chat with a vet, and finding a new protea bud to photograph. Sometimes the best moments happen despite the weather.
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I can’t remember the last time
The sun is always shining above the fog Sometimes it’s hard to appreciate that, above the fog, the sun always shines. Yesterday we woke to reasonably thick fog in the Wonderful Waikato – we had no idea what time it lifted and when the sun started shining at home. Because we were on a road…
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Ask and it shall be delivered unto you
Our commercially printed recipe book is crammed full of family recipes with special memories – recipes we make more often than from the book we bought.
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Muscle Memory – is it a thing…?
Class 2 License Not Required Back in the day, when I was a member of the Royal New Zealand Engineers 6FdQqn (6 Field Squadron), I sat and passed my Class 2 Driver’s License. Although a civilian license, I only ever used it as a soldier. No medical was required back then. I remember being told…
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The Fork in the Road
We’ve got a decision to make – do we go left or right…? Fiat or Ford…? German or Italian design?
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Happy Place with Alpacas
Fortunately for me, I have a friend who loves getting up close and personal with alpacas and llamas. A friend who doesn’t mind getting grubby and maybe, just maybe, spat at. Yesterday I had the joy and pleasure of catching up with her. We spent a lovely couple of hours at Cornerstone Alpaca Stud Farm.…
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