..... and it is Cheffie's favourite time at the Restaurant..... :haha:

that is when all his customers behave their best...... and he goes crazy in the kitchen.

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Good morning.... overcast today..... hope we will get some rain.... all the grass is dead

Hope you all have a great day!

Blessings

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Happy Birthday PAV

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It has been a while PAV .. we hope everything is OK your side

Presently TheDuck family are very proud of the eldest of the gander, RKAD. A few years ago we gave him the first digital camera we got. Now he has graduated to using our digital camera and over the past month he has been experimenting taking photos of stones, butterflies, flowers and anything that catches his eye.

On Sunday we went down to the local harbour to buy some fish and he promptly started taking photos.

I have put a few photos up which he took .. one is of the wife and another of flags on the back of a boat .. this one I have in this post I quite like.

Do remember he is now 5yrs old



one proud MrDuck

Goods books have been few and thin lately (for me anyway) and I have found it difficult to find one that grips from the beginning, unitl now.

Map of Bones is written by James Rollins and plays on the whole new area of writing that has come about since the Da Vinci Code, but with a twist.

Shots rang out across the cathedral. Sporadic. Cries suddenly silenced. death stalked the cathedral as the monks slaughtered the few remaining survivors..... All for the sake of bones. Why steal the bones of the Magi?

Commander Gray Peirce must lead the elite Sigma Force on the hunt for the Royal Dragon Court, a clandistine aristocratic fraternity of alchemists dating back to the Middle ages.

This book uses the Knights Templar, hidden church groups, treason etc.

If you liked the Da Vinci Code, The Traveller or The Last Knight you'll like this. If you like Tom Clancy, Gerals Seymour etc you'll like this.

Its a good read which will keep you hooked till the end.

Parents hail success of conjoined twins operation

Doctors in the United States have successfully separated a pair of conjoined twin sisters born fused at the midsection, the first known surgical attempt to separate twins with a shared kidney.

The parents of Kendra and Maliyah Herrin, 4, broke into tears when doctors at the Primary Children's Medical Centre in Salt Lake City, Utah, announced last night that they had completed the final cut separating the girls at 10.50 pm (0450 GMT, Tuesday) after spending all day in surgery.

Within a few minutes, however, Kendra had been moved to a separate operating theatre as both girls underwent reconstruction surgery to rebuild internal organs and prevent complications.

Read more here....

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Happy Birthday Peter Raath

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howzit everyone!

hope you all have a very lekker day, thank goodness Monday is under the belt now!

enjoy! :thumbs:

When we think of hospices, we think dying people and much pain, nice nurses and upset relatives.. but my experience has been SO different.

My GP referred me to a day hospice nearby, Grove House, and I had to go for an interview before they accepted me as a day patient. I wondered why they did this but it emerged that they wanted to find out the best way I could be helped.. and this has been their attitude all the way through. I go every Wednesday (they provide transport in a volunteer's private car) and everyone knows me, there's a warm welcome with nice refreshments on arrival, and then I can do what I like, really. If I feel sick or tired I can sleep or just veg; there are therapists who give massages - this Wed I'll have a foot massage; there's a hairdresser who charges a nominal amount (if you have any hair left, that is) which she then gives into the main pot; each person there meets with a nurse who checks overall progress; and generally there's activity if you want it, or not if you don't want it. Last week a beautician came from Boots to help the ladies with make-up etc and gave everyone lovely goodie-bags with perfume etc..

Some time during the morning a menu comes round for the 3-course lunch, and this is cooked to order on the premises and served by the staff. It's so well-prepared, and of course the dessert appeals to my S African sweet tooth They are champs at desserts!!

Then in the afternoon an artist comes for those who would like to do art - so my new friend Maria, and I, are making silk painted scarves to hide our hairless heads!! There is also entertainment, like singers, for those who aren't as active as Maria and I and other budding artists. The group, by the way, is no larger than about 16 people (patients) plus a group of nurses and volunteers, and mine is a mixture of younger and older people, mostly with cancer of some sort and at some stage. Sometimes I feel a little guilty being there as I'm so well and energetic compared to some of the others.

Then we have refreshments and cake, and are taken home. It's a warm, personal, unconditional place, with NO expectations - a very freeing atmosphere where no-one thinks you should be doing this or that to get better..

So, next time you think of a hospice, think of a place that's wellness-centred, warm, caring, respectful, and worth supporting. I will never go past a collection-tin for a hospice again without putting something in, however little, because I know what it's like to benefit from it. The people who work there have taught me so much about compassion, which I hope to be able to pass on to others worse-off than I.
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She scored a whopping

3344030

with Bookworm

Well done Braveheart!!! ok: