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Conversations With An Old Goat: March 2015
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Conversations With An Old Goat. Wednesday, 25 March 2015. Macandrew Bay is located on the Otago Peninsula.on the edge of Dunedin’s Otago Harbour, and is named for pioneer settler James Macandrew who lived here during his later life. Early residents of the area called the bay "The Hundreds", due to the large number of boulders which covered the foreshore. On Sunday 15 March, we drove along the coast, through the “village”, and up and over the mountain to Larnach Castle. Don’t get me wrong. If yo...Last Oc...
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Conversations With An Old Goat: August 2015
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Conversations With An Old Goat. Wednesday, 19 August 2015. I checked up on this blog this morning, to discover, to my dismay, that I have been a very lazy blogger this year, with August 2015 a very threadbare posting period. Let's try and rectify that, I thought to myself. So, what can I write about? What is a blog? Well, anything goes, apparently. This blog does not cater for the commercial aspects - I'm not trying to sell any goods or services, and I do not earn revenue from reader traffic. But The Fla...
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Conversations With An Old Goat: Tomorrow
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Conversations With An Old Goat. Wednesday, 8 July 2015. We continually encounter crossroads in our lives. Generally and quite frequently, I imagine, we are not even aware of the importance of any one particular encounter. It is only later, whether after a few hours or days or even after passing of a sizeable fraction of our existence, that we might review that particular crossroad and recognise its significance and how our actions (or lack of action) influenced the result. Dr Steve Maraboli said, "Althou...
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Conversations With An Old Goat: May 2015
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Conversations With An Old Goat. Wednesday, 27 May 2015. Pile Of The Brown Stuff. Progress report on our Veggie bed, named RIMU. Dateline:27052015-13:45NZST Reikorangi Valley. Since the weekend when the bed was being rototilled, two-and-a-half days later, my progress at sifting the soil has been, in the words of my friend Charles Dickens, rather tardy, mostly for reasons beyond my control. By the way: whilst checking whether " rototilled. Should be hyphenated to " roto-tilled. This is barrow #3 of stones ...
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Conversations With An Old Goat: Recipe for a Barrel of Fun
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Conversations With An Old Goat. Thursday, 18 June 2015. Recipe for a Barrel of Fun. Just what I need - a recipe for the success of any venture or activity. Today, it is the turn of two potted shrubs being re-planted in half wine barrels. Or maybe so much wine is being consumed that there really is a glut of this commodity and barrels are genuinely authentic. Added to that, I ask myself, who cares? But I digress. Back to the recipe. 2 used half barrels cut neatly as per specification;. 2 Cover the base of...
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Conversations With An Old Goat: December 2014
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Conversations With An Old Goat. Tuesday, 30 December 2014. Bennie the Labrador x Mastiff or Mastiff x Labrador (Dad was a Lab) or, as Brynn advises me, he is a real “Mommy’s Boy”. Here is his annual report card for 2014. He is a tad over 18 and should be approaching adulthood now, one might expect. That’s in dog years – a huge puppy at 2 years and 6 months on our calendar. He responds to his special whistle call without delay or hesitation. Obedience Grading: “A”. Perhaps Haughty, but…. I’ve been p...
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Conversations With An Old Goat: July 2015
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Conversations With An Old Goat. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. WARNING : Contains Deliciousness. In South Africa, I was. Exposed to Mama's Pies and Big Jack pies. I have never fully recovered from the ordeals, and those experiences are probably the cause of my fear of flaky pastry and wholesale greasiness. Please excuse me, but I need to go outdoors for a few gulps of fresh air to recover from that memory. To mean "curried.". The categories under which bakeries have submitted entries include:. If the results o...
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Conversations With An Old Goat: January 2015
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Conversations With An Old Goat. Friday, 30 January 2015. Beans Not just any old variety of beans, green beans. That’s the full extent of my knowledge on the subject. Now, in 2014 I sowed quite a number of beans, and most of them behaved themselves and grew into little green bushes. Unfortunately,they were forced to stagnate for quite a few weeks while the veggie garden bed was being prepared, so the fruit produced may not be quite representative of what should have been…. Tuesday, 27 January 2015. Whilst...
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Conversations With An Old Goat: February 2015
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Conversations With An Old Goat. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. I take stuff for granted. Most stuff. I guess that the vast majority of people do, too. I suppose that the very religious people among us give thanks for what they have and what they receive. And they do this on a very regular basis, maybe a few times each day, every day. I have had issues involving the inability to use my legs. Surgical issues, which were remedied over time with physio. Today I am especially thankful. Nothing to trumpet about &#...
