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Yo Hilary - the original "bath buns" had a sugar cube in the middle, and were sprinkled on top with sugar and 'spice.'
Let's hear for it for cooking, variants, & nomenclature!
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Frozen HAIR???
My curls would snap!
My curls wouldnt like this!
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Any car driver who tosses bottles out onto the road is
a)a hoon-all other labels (irresponsible idiot, munter, shitforbrains, fuckwit)
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My sister Mary Emma was a very elegant opinionated hardworking nurse.
Who smoked like the proverbial chimney.
Who loved dogs (huskies.)
And fine china & glass.
She was #4 in the family and the only person my fey father expressed a worry about, on his death bed(in 1956.)
She always wanted children
Unfortunately, like all my sisters, she had endometriosis.
So, with the cool objectivity ALL my family has, she went for the dogs (and cats.) Wholeheartedly.
I have some of her treasures.
I was astonished to learn she collected dictionaries.
I thought I was the only one in the family who did that.
We were estranged from a long time back.
We were starting to come to - an understanding- in 2007.
She died in September that year.
I dont know.
I really dont know.
But I love Cohen's words & music. -
Geoff - cheerfulness & kindness and common decency - not to mention common sense!- do keep breaking through! And, the very obvious social control factors should put any sane human off ANY religion...
religion is one of the most vicious memes humans have invented. To date.
O, and I really like a large number of Cohen's songs.
When my younger sibling Mary Emma died last year, "Halleujah" was *her" song of exit at the crematorium.It was an additional joy that the Bose went on the blink when we ried to play it ultra loud here in ANZ as she was being cremated-
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Yamis - that is a really intriguing point you make about religion & violence...
That, for me (& I've studied, and indeed, practised "religions" for over 30 years before realising I was being a nitwit & abusing my brain) is the (sorry) crux of the matter.
Religion is a huge driver of violence within ANZ.
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Heh. Yeah.
Many of my whanau suffer from SAD (and a very unfortunate few, from severe clinical depression as well.) Vit. D capsules - specifically
Cholecalciferol (D3) are what we gulp with our morning coffees (or whatever.)There are 2 who - o the irony of it all! - who are also allergic to sunlight!
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urm, mark taslov - you're speaking of the origins of Pakeha anger, right?
Because quite a few of us posting on PAS have different origins, or multiple ancestry- and I'm not sure I'd agree with your suggestions anyway-annnd, a note about sunshine: *most people* in our archipelago who live south of about Auckland have less vit. D in their systems than they should. That lack can abet depression - but not necessarily anger.
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Mark Harris - what an idea! If it only could happen (but I rather think it's in the region where dwell Canterbury hopes of excess water that can come from the West Coast through a tunnel to them...)
With cooling thoughts from Big O where it is 30plus C, and I am melting as I type-
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Paul Litterick' the 'ah' of comprehension now manifests-