@Windthin yum, I also roasted my ham with pears. Pears and cranberries with a cinnamon ginger honey brown-sugar glaze.
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Nice! Tomorrow I am making my infamous cranberry sauce muffins, where I make fresh cranberry sauce and fold it into muffins to get this:
Here are three versions:
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mmmm yummy But here it is the middle of summer. So yesterday our xmas lunch was cold lamb and salad followed by pavlova berries and ice-cream with a glass of white wine.
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The New Zealand Xmas tree. The Pohutakawa is in flower now. This is taken from the bach* window. Its 3 mins down to the beach and 10 mins back.
BTW it’s an excellent swimming beach, protected by a reef and a tor from the open sea.
- bach 2 |batʃ| informal
verb [ no obj. ] Austral./NZ
(especially of a man) live alone and do one’s own cooking and housekeeping: _Baldy bached in a hut down the road a bit_ .
nounNZ
a small holiday house.
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Yes, I am definitely crying. Beautiful.
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It’s so dusty in here. 
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Found the Youtube version for easier sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAxgscOh86o
The title is “Thursday Appointments”, rooted in a practice of going on Thursdays to leave flowers at graves. It was made by a 20-year-old Iranian and won the Luxor Film Festival.
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@Pet_Proletariat, “Let me interrupt your expertise with my confidence.” - Ha! Reminded me of this one:
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No idea where this is but I love it:
Turns out it’s on the wall of the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in Cambridge, Md.
This Harriet Tubman mural — and viral photo of a girl reaching out to her — are drawing powerful responses
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With Deutsche Bank trending because of a story (yet unverified) that Russia backed Trump’s loans from it, Twitter once again proves that their algorithms for choosing stories to go with trending topics SUCKS:
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