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Kerry - Otepoti can be *scorchingly* hot (yep, the winters are a bit chill but hey! southern foods & drinks & and indeed. clothing (note I dont mention houses - I was partly brought up south sooo..._) make up for the cold-
Raymond - Macs are really good - there are some crookies but follow your wife's advice- and they are *so* beautiful (the keyboard of the latest machine is the only reason I havent hurled the iMac at the nearest TotallySlack entity I could find...) Enjoy the 'bait!
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Many thanks for the supportive messages good people - Joe, I tried that fix - it refuses to install itself on my 10.5.6 updated Leopard hard drive...but having disabled Expose, things are much more stable...Jackie, great your dog is now able in water, & I now share your distrust of Leopard - it's the shakiest Mac OS I've encountered (and I've been using them for nearly a decade.)
Hogmannay was - odd. We normally have firstfooting & a hangi & fireworks but important elements of our hangi team were away - the weather wasnt right for fireworks - and there werent a lot of Scots-derived folk ready to venture out...
still, it's a new year, and may it bring joy & unexpected pleasures as well as good health & happiness to everyone - kia ora tatou katoa!
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jon-knox - no cellphone coverage (so campground out)Great idea tho'-thanks mate-
Joe Wylie- excellent!Except - I've been there, when I first started having probs- they refuse to acknowledge Leopard can actually *have* these kind of probs-
you will notice things -words! - are here?
I've been poking down in the bowels of the beast-
3 things:
*dont buy from Totally Mac:
* WC whitebait recipe: for 1lb of bait, make a light batter -one egg beaten well, (salt the 'bait and add last after draining) with about a heaped tablespoon of flour, and a wee scoop of beer - let the batter rest: when the big bubbles show, mix the mix with the 'bait and fry in good evo or rice bran oil so the outside is just brown/crisp and the beautiful milkfish are sweet & succulent inside...)
Yes, this is what I cooked my mother Mary for breakfast Christmas morning-courtesy of my friends&neighbours because arithitis crippled me this paxt season- BUT! Next year!Which is when I will NOT make a WHITEBAIT COCKTAIL!
I've eaten 'em raw&wriggling, I've eaten 'em just-dead as sushi, but trust me mates- cooked is best...
*so -how-the-Hulmes-spent-Hogmanay.......is yet to come! To all of goodwill here, may 2009 be a joyous fulfilling of what you want-
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This has been a serious enquiry-I have a new machine bought fromTotally Mac which is doing random things-it has taken 5 min plus to input this -I am not kidding Im desprate
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Many happy returns Sofie1
there is something really wrong with my new Mac - any Mac users here please advise (o yes, I've tried the USe
the entire screen change colour or freezes and there are random sound beeps in mail
I am phuqing tired and I HATE Totally Mac
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I/m from a large family: there can be problems: there were.
We had whitebait for breakfast (our recipe is simple -one eggo shit my new Mac will not do mail -e
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I/m from a large family: there can be problems: there were.
We had whitebait for breakfast (our recipe is simple -one eggo shit my new Mac will not do mail -e
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You know, I've *never* had a long lunch?
Comes of never being a corporate person, or member of a Wellington government department, I guess...BUT! Our hangi/umukai here in the OFR are more than the equivalent: we do 'em on significant birthdays, or over the festive season. They atart with woodgathering the day before (always good for some wine or whisky afterwards)and go on the next day through the
*cutting of the grass
*ceremonial clearing of the pit
*setting up the fire & placing of the bricks
*packing of the baskets
*frantic wetting of the sacks etc. & placing of the baskets
*even more frantic covering of aforesaid & shovelling of good earth over
*annnnd-2-3 hours of quiet chat and sometimes song & occaisionally raucous argument while the kai cooks
*and then -the feasting! The singing! The continuing conversations!
The fireworks & obligatory falling-down-drunk are optional- -
O Rochelle, that was *so* - therapeutic!
Am sending the website all round te whanau - -
Crivens! Nae Pictsie was ever stopped by a jammie wee thing like yon Hadrian's Wall!
I've been to England & Scotland (ancestral places both, and I deeply love some of the fiction & poetry, art & architecture - not to mention music- therefrom)half a dozen times. I understand the body language in Scotland...
England has been ascrabble with humans for a very long time and the land shows it- yes, there are the surprising inhabited-for aeons-but still-themselves- places (the Yorkshire Moors for me)-but it is majorly
human-riddled, and waaay too crowded-