Before we head off into the second week of the New Year, I’m going to hit the ‘Thank You’ key.
There are some people out there who deserve a BIG thank you, who have followed, visited regularly, commented and generally supported my various blogs over the past year.
In not particular order…
Andrew from Hong Kong has a photography blog All downhill from here mainly birds, he visits here almost daily hits the like button and leaves comments.
Chas Spain Design has an art blog, another regular hitting the like button and leaving comments.
Rachel over at quakerattled comes from my home town, but moved to Auckland because of the earthquakes that flattened our city, visits, comments and likes daily. She has recently been touring England writing and photographing her travels with the family and is about to return home.
Small at Reduce Footprints, a great environmental blog, a superb resource for anyone bent in that direction. I have been following Small since her first appearance in the blogosphere and we have at times been partners in crime. She is on her annual hiatus presently, hopefully to return on 22nd Jan.
Set the Tempo is where you’ll find Kymbo from Down Under. He visits, comments and likes on two of my blogs on a daily basis. I love his byline: “A little of this and that, not too much of some things and way too much of other things…”
Conrad at Wine Wankers, have a great blog, and another The Lords of the Drinks, both regular visitors and likers.
Fromage Homage is a turophile, has a cheesy blog teaching us about the wonders of British cheeses… who ever knew?
I’m going to stop here, I could add many more, but I have to get to the supermarket; I’m out of… well, just about everything.
So for the ones I didn’t dig out of the trash file, you’re not forgotten, whenever you visit here, I do eventually get to your blog too. Now I’m feeling guilty that I haven’t included everyone…
I’ll leave you with today’s art work…
Thanks for the mention! I have really enjoyed following your blog (and the other one too) and have learnt some things and you often make me laugh which is always welcome.
I still miss Christchurch and still feel homeless because Auckland doesn’t feel like home to me.
I will go and look at some of the other blogs you mentioned now….
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>Rachel, you’re welcome, loyalty pays off. I’m glad that you enjoy my blogs, hearing this makes the effort worthwhile; and if you can laugh then you are living.
I can understand the difference between AKL and CHC. I lived in AKL in the late 60s and I could never get used to the city. CHC was a city, AKL is just a collection of suburbs around an isthmus.
AV
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That’s really nice to hear you say that, about Auckland. I feel quite alone in despising the city and it often does well in those best places to live surveys and so I feel I have to fight to think differently from what everyone else thinks.
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When we were kids my Mum had a love affair with Auckland, all her war-time friends and work colleagues migrated there and as a result we got to go and stay there in the school holidays, exotic places like on the beach at Takapuna and Cheltenham, great for kids at the beach, but to go anywhere was a nightmare which meant we had to have a rental car. Beach great; city crap.
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Thank you for the thank you – and for all your likes and comments too. I follow mainly food blogs but yours makes me chuckle – and I like to hear about the kitty too 😉 All the best for 2014.
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>Fromage, you’re welcome too. I enjoy your cheeses and the historic notes that often go with them. All the best for you and yours in 2014 too.
AV
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Hope your 2014 has been good so far and will continue to be your best year yet! 🙂
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>cupi, thank you; so far, so good. It has always been my philosophy to make each year better than the last. Sorry I didn’t include you, but once I started, I realised the enormity of the task, thank you for your support.
AV
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Hey. That doesn’t matter! I love your philosophy. I might have to borrow it. Hope you are well
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Thank you AV. I drop by because its fun. The ups and downs of daily life are comforting in a way because we can all associate with them. And Cloro is an up and coming star. I like today’s photo. I must show it to our helper.
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>Andrew, thank you for your support. I try to make it fun, even the downs have a fun side if you look at them sideways. I often find sayings or quotes around the net and make those pictures, anything that tickles my fancy; and at my age my fancy needs tickling sometimes. I take it your helper vacuums with headphones… 🙂
AV
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