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| Bird Song
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Posted 9:13 AM on Wed-30-Nov-2011
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I'm making the most of the quiet. End of term means scratchy kids and also that we are getting closer to the summer mayhem which is the reality of living in a beach town.I always find it quite ironic, that city folk, in order to get away from the hustle and bustle of their cosmopolitan lives, flock in droves to places such as the Coromandel. By the time they get here though, it's like a mini city (less the shopping) and they may as well have stayed where they were.Us locals tend to hibernate. If you were a fly on the wall in most garages in town, you'd see large deep freezers. Open the lid on one, and you'd find mountains of supplies. Bread, milk, meat, ice-creams. Oh yes
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| Camping Out...again
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Posted 2:02 PM on Fri-4-Mar-2011
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Earthquake two...Today is the 1st day i've really been able to get online. As the phone and power (and water still) have been out for 10 days. Finally the power is up today. I've never been so glad to hear the Wiggles on TV and DS (18months) dancing and laughing, it symbolises some normally for him. For the past 10 days he hasn't let me put him down, chanting shake shake shake over and over...today, with power he's happier already. Yay!We've had the gas cooker out again, 40l containers of water being filled regularly from where ever we can get it. Been travelling 30km to have a hot shower every couple of days & to top it off I've got hyperemesis (horibly bad mor
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