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RE: You can never have enough... - Oh_hunnihunni - 01-04-2023
There was a bee I saw once, hovering over a field of flowers, Middle Ages I think probably from the V&A collection. Boy no wonder embroiderers were so highly paid back then...
RE: You can never have enough... - popeye333 - 01-04-2023
Still gloomy here but no rain as yet.
Yep as they say OHH "you can chose your Friends but not your family". And I have said many times in the past, "Just cos someone is family doesn't mean we have to like them."
Successful mission to the Junktion. Got one very rotten broken skateboard. but the wheels run fine. Also got a smaller piece of ply wood . And Ill hacksaw off the rusted nuts, and put them onto the new wood with new bolts,, and all done and dusted for $2-20 plus the four bolts which I have already. quite excited really and it will make such a difference.
Also nabbed two large Tupperware containers for the sum of $3-00, I already have spare lids so they match my pantry.
Bumped into one of MrP's carers, shhh but Im smaller than her now... Was nice to catch up tho.
Time to see if my listings did anything exciting, or relist if not.
Roma what part of South Waikato were you in?
I was in Mangakino just after cyclone Bola in 89 and then we went back in 97
RE: You can never have enough... - Roma - 01-04-2023
Good afternoon.
A bit of peace and quiet while the others are out lol!
It's been a dull day so far with a few threats (spits) of rain. We've had the sprinkler going to encourage it!
We lived in Reporoa from about '82 to '92 Popeye. Our 3 kids were born there. Freezing in the winter plus fog and very hot in the summer ... the good old days where we were quite a distance from anywhere and the community vibe was strong
We all have those we know that when we look at their name or number come up on the phone we wonder what they want now
Off to sew up the wee cardi that's taken long enough to complete.
Enjoy the rest of the day all.
RE: You can never have enough... - popeye333 - 01-04-2023
(01-04-2023, 12:39 PM)Roma Wrote: Good afternoon.
A bit of peace and quiet while the others are out lol!
It's been a dull day so far with a few threats (spits) of rain. We've had the sprinkler going to encourage it!
We lived in Reporoa from about '82 to '92 Popeye. Our 3 kids were born there. Freezing in the winter plus fog and very hot in the summer ... the good old days where we were quite a distance from anywhere and the community vibe was strong
We all have those we know that when we look at their name or number come up on the phone we wonder what they want now
Off to sew up the wee cardi that's taken long enough to complete.
Enjoy the rest of the day all.
Yes thank goodness for being able to see names on the phones lol.
So you would know about Kerosene Creek.. We used to go there from Kaiangaroa and stand under the waterfall.. I heard they were putting in a proper wooden track etc. But it was always a bit unsafe for vehicles so we used to have one of us stay with the cars, and swap out so everyone enjoyed them.
Very healing water.
RE: You can never have enough... - Oh_hunnihunni - 01-04-2023
(01-04-2023, 12:39 PM)Roma Wrote: Good afternoon.
A bit of peace and quiet while the others are out lol!
It's been a dull day so far with a few threats (spits) of rain. We've had the sprinkler going to encourage it!
We lived in Reporoa from about '82 to '92 Popeye. Our 3 kids were born there. Freezing in the winter plus fog and very hot in the summer ... the good old days where we were quite a distance from anywhere and the community vibe was strong
We all have those we know that when we look at their name or number come up on the phone we wonder what they want now
Off to sew up the wee cardi that's taken long enough to complete.
Enjoy the rest of the day all.
One degree of separation comes home again. I was widowed by a drunk driver and his mates exiting the Reporoa Road onto the Taupo/Rotorua highway, Easter Sunday 1986. The same hour and day the traffic cop was shotgunned on the other side of Rotorua, so all emergency services were a long way away at the time.
The life experience that permanently ruined both March and Easter for me forever.
I still love chocolate though!
RE: You can never have enough... - Lilith7 - 01-04-2023
Some days, chocolate makes the world worthwhile.
Finally stopped raining here & has warmed up considerably - so it damn well should, we've had extremely wintry conditions all week & I'm well fed up with it.
The world is a weird place. And humans are crazy.
RE: You can never have enough... - Oh_hunnihunni - 01-04-2023
I put on a new (to me,) top this morning, synthetic so too warm for our summer because we woke up to rain showers after a warmish night. I got a bit of gardening done and noticed lots of tiny blue dots have been put around the place on dodgy bits of painting. Someone has been watching The Block, lol, and thinks the cheap contract job needs revisiting. Which means we will have the paint and carpenter team back again - heavy sigh - as we begin month THREE of this four week long job, lol.
I want to yell at them 'Just give us the damned paint! We'll do it...'
Pass the chocolate...
RE: You can never have enough... - popeye333 - 01-04-2023
(01-04-2023, 02:20 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I put on a new (to me,) top this morning, synthetic so too warm for our summer because we woke up to rain showers after a warmish night. I got a bit of gardening done and noticed lots of tiny blue dots have been put around the place on dodgy bits of painting. Someone has been watching The Block, lol, and thinks the cheap contract job needs revisiting. Which means we will have the paint and carpenter team back again - heavy sigh - as we begin month THREE of this four week long job, lol.
I want to yell at them 'Just give us the damned paint! We'll do it...'
Pass the chocolate...
Hands OHH some Choccie, Block? Bunnie? or Choc chip peanut brownies? Im always prepared and only share with special people .
Sooo the bunnies are hidden and the Lollie jars will be by bed time too.. To come out again on Tuesday. lol
Cos Mr.P has always been a greedy one, and my twin was too. What I buy him I buy for myself.. But the difference is I enjoy mine as a treat. I dont sit there and eat 1.2 kilos of lollies in less than a week.
Seems like it might be both poor workmanship and extra hours maybe?
And I agree you would have all had it done Properly the first time around.
Trying to think of the family that had the home invasion in Reporoa. And when.. I dont think we were there at the time, but can't remember where we were to work it out.
Power went off earlier.. so I had to very Ungraciously climb out of said Electric chair with the foot up. I figured thats ok at least its ready for bed.
Then I was thinking if the power doesn't come back on I'd have to go buy tea... And Id then have to study the instructions for the garage door, cos I can't remember how the bloke did it lol.
But the power is back on. Someone hit a power pole on the way into town.. Dont know anything else about it at this stage but hopefully they werent hurt too badly.
And do you think I can get those bolts apart??? Will have to dig out MrPs grinder, cos Im not giving in yet lol
RE: You can never have enough... - Oh_hunnihunni - 01-04-2023
First lot of repair work I had done on the leg we had a house on a slope, with the pool at the bottom of the hill. I used a skateboard to get down there to do pool maintenance and came back up on my bum.
Boy, the things we do, lol!
I am glad I just have a tiny flat this time around!
RE: You can never have enough... - popeye333 - 01-04-2023
(01-04-2023, 04:46 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: First lot of repair work I had done on the leg we had a house on a slope, with the pool at the bottom of the hill. I used a skateboard to get down there to do pool maintenance and came back up on my bum.
Boy, the things we do, lol!
I am glad I just have a tiny flat this time around!
We sure are a group of determined women lol.
I enjoy giving things a shot.
And as my quote says,, They told me I couldn't .. So I did lol.. and soo much more these days..
Im certainly not a delicate flower.. but thinking about them neither were all 3 of my grandmothers.. I daresay the ones before may have been more gentile.
RE: You can never have enough... - Roma - 01-04-2023
That's shocking to read OHH and I'm sorry it was your man who so tragically lost his life. I have a vague memory of the accident and am sure it would have been big news at the time ... those awful accidents were back then
That would have been the Bouma family Popeye. I've just looked it up and it was 1998 after our time there, also tragic ... the wife was murdered by those mongrels.
RE: You can never have enough... - Lilith7 - 01-04-2023
I'm not sure there are any delicate flowers these days. I've never come across any so perhaps they died out back in the 19th century when women weren't allowed to do much of anything - at least officially.
Not entirely sure who'd have done the garden & chopped wood etc. etc. if I'd opted for being a delicate flower. At one point deep in a Dunedin winter without power & only an old coal range it was a matter of chop wood, light fire to heat water, then wash by hand & with two still in nappies back then. Oh joy.
RE: You can never have enough... - Oh_hunnihunni - 01-04-2023
My gran was no delicate flower either. Married at 21, had six children at home, five survived, moved house in an ox cart, ran the family like a business and drove cars like a demon.
She once told me if she had it all over again she'd run away to be a race car driver. To hell with being married, lol.
She taught me how to garden, a life enhancing gift that is...
RE: You can never have enough... - JanW - 01-04-2023
My grandmothers were both amazing - the day the 1931 quake hit was my Dads 13 year old brother first day at Technical college in Napier - the quake hit and Nana walked about 20 km into town - the road was gone so she walked along the beach - when she finally made it into town they had the boys who had been killed under a tarpaulin - she had resoled his shoes and saw his shoes sticking out from under the tarpaulin .She wanted to get his body back to Eskdale so she carried him to the harbour and took a boat from the sea scout den and rowed him home .Luckily our family plot is on a hill in Eskdale and his grave is safe .My other Grandma came out on a ship from England with 4 little children - my grandad was a drunk i don’t think he ever worked - she was amazing - unfortunately at 99 she like your husband Hunni was the victim of a drunken driver - was sitting in the bus stop and he crashed into her
Our lawyer yesterday was extremely helpful - he contacted all the cousins before we got there for permission to sign the property over to my sister - she kept maintaining the lady at the council said we just needed to put the silt in plastic bags and put it out on the road side .He gave her a choice to have the property or let the other family have it - she wanted time so she has a week .I reached out to her before she left as she had a 10 hour drive home - she was very good to us when we were children being the oldest she often stepped in - my Mum would get absorbed in her crafting -when I was a kid my mother always seemed to be pregnant but we are all 3 years apart - 4 girls then finally a boy - she used to say she wasn’t going to stop until she had a boy -we call him the golden child she absolutely adored him
My granddaughter sent me some Queen Anne Easter eggs - I promised not to open until Easter but couldn’t resist - real marshmallow covered in dark chocolate
I can’t remember if we were in Taupo when the Bauma family were killed - the Reperoa tea rooms used to make yummy milk shakes .Have been to Kerosene creek many times - I did know why it was called that but can’t remember .Can remember once a group of us trudged through the bush in Taupo to the Honeymoon pool expecting something special - what a disappointment looked more like a mud bath .I think back in the day I was very gullible
My neighbour had a heart attack 4 weeks ago - they are not complainers at all but she came over this afternoon they have had a rough time in the hospital system - the specialist in Wellington said if he hadn’t been as fit and healthy as he was he would have died - he had 5 bypasses - his surgery was delayed four times - he was resuscitated 3 times - has been transferred back to Hastings - is not going to be a good patient very active man recuperating rather than out riding his bike will not suit him at all .She has never driven - we grew up next door to each other - small world
RE: You can never have enough... - Oh_hunnihunni - 02-04-2023
I think some of us will never sit back and take things quietly Jan, we'd rather die on our feet doing what we love best.
I love your grandmothers stories. It just underlines how important they and what they leave us really is. My Scottish one was bowled by a delivery van crossing Princes St in Edinburgh, she was 98, still living alone, and self sufficient. Even then it took her another six weeks in the Royal Edinburgh to finally give up. She was a tiny woman, even shorter than me, but ruled with an iron frying pan apparently. My Dad adored her and swore that leaving her to come to NZ was the hardest thing he ever had to do. As a soldier that confession was quite a compliment to her. She came to see us several times, and played Mother in Law to my Mum, much to our hilarity each time. They were both strong willed ladies and not good companions in the kitchen, lol...
RE: You can never have enough... - kiwimade64 - 02-04-2023
morning ladies
We have a real pea souper this morning, hopefully the fog will clear soon.Families, eh, Jan. Good luck to your sister shoveling the silt into bags. That would get old real fast.
My grandmother married 'the other side of the tracks' and from what I believe, came from a reasonably wealthy family. She was loving and kind and we all adored her. I remember Mum telling us the story of flooding in Timaru and the floods went through the wool scourer, then through the house. They lost everything. Anything fabric just fell apart in your hands thanks to the wool scouring business. We never heard a raised voice from my grandmother or grandfather and us grandkids were just spoilt rotten lol. She had eight kids
I'm going to keep going with the garden. Leave it for two weeks and the trifods take over. The lavenders have done their dash. They have been in the garden for six years and are now past their prime. The compost bin is going to smell divine by the time I've finished. Then, by the time the dahlias and salvias have finished, it will be an easy prune. I need MrK's chainsaw. The climbing hydrangea has died
It was old too, one of the last original plants in the garden. One more leaf to do for the stumpwork
and a teeny bit more embroidery on the base picture. I'm very happy with the way the leaves have worked out. The first couple aren't the best, but you can see the improvement in the others. Putting it all together is going to be fun. Thank goodness I have a good sturdy leather thimble 
Happy crafting
RE: You can never have enough... - popeye333 - 02-04-2023
Morning everyone
Pea Souper here too Kiwimade.. Reminds me of Waikato.
My Mothers Mum came from England on a ship. She had been a ladies Maid in England, ended up pen friending with my Grandfathers sister. So she came over to be his housekeeper. I have copies of letters she wrote to her Mother. My mother then also married her Boss, that she was housekeeper to and I did the same. lol.
My Fathers mother, I dont remember them being today. Apparently my great grandmother was a very hard, if not tiny woman. they called her Little Nana. She got into their marriage and they split. I dont recall Dads mum ever working but I know they had a dairy. She lived alone for the rest of her life, and I asked one day why she never remarried and she said Cos she could never love another man like she did my Grandfather.
She could walk for miles and Miles, used to go rock hunting a lot. Im more and more like her now. I like my independence now.
She designed some of the Pensioner Flats in Papakura, which is where I get my love of drawing plans etc. I have one of my fathers bibs that she hand stitched him so that will be 90 years old this year. And I have some of her little Tatting samples.. I wish she had been able to teach me how to do that, but her fingers were already pretty messed up with arthritis and she had stopped knitting etc by the time I was old enough to learn.
Going to attack the car today, and not a lot else. A friend has said she thinks she has a skateboard, which will save me trying to remake one.. But I did want to do it lol...
Oh and I have listings to do FPO's on too..
Have a fab day everyone
RE: You can never have enough... - Mica - 02-04-2023
Morni g all
Overcast, very mild and a breeze,
Love the stories about grandparents, history that makes us.
Got merino dress cut out, jts a bit of a puzzle pieced but I have done it before I can do it again. Just started sewing when DD and her wee family turned up so will pick it up again later today.
We had yummy dinner last night a marinated wee lamb rump roast just the right size for the two of us it was yummy.
Need to vacuum and wash the floors that are covered on multiple k9 paw prints.
Enjoy your day
RE: You can never have enough... - Roma - 02-04-2023
Good morning.
A lovely day with some good rain overnight.
Yes, the parents/grandparent stories are so great to learn/read about. DH and I both come from farming stock through the generations, hardworking pioneers who suffered hardship and loss but just got on with it, breaking in the land, trying to earn a living off it and raising their large families.
Fortunately I got into the supermarket early this morning before the rush. Now doing a spot of baby minding but will get out into the garden later on.
Cardi finished, now to finish off the cross stitch and then a beanie.
Time to go, 4 mo old bub is trying to 'help' me with the keys on the laptop
Enjoy the day all.
RE: You can never have enough... - Lilith7 - 02-04-2023
My grandmother married my grandad but it wasn't a good one & she left eventually - she never said but there was a suspicion he had an affair - so she left Mum who was a baby with her older sister & moved from a small town in Nelson down to CHCH where she & a friend set up a dressmaking business. She'd go & look in the windows of the poshest store, do sketches of the dresses, head home & from that make patterns & then the garment.
They did reasonably OK & she retrieved mum to live with her & at some point met my stepgrandad, freshly out from Wales having somehow survived the very worst bits of WW1; his mother owned a pub & that was what he did here, barstaff, management etc. etc. Later in life they did that together, filling in for publicans wanting a a holiday.
Finally got front lawn done & had another bash at hedge.