Author Topic: March 2017 (Read 12150 times)

Babs · « **on:** March 01, 2017, 09:26:05 AM »

Babs Hair Raising

I am a shampoo freak, nah let’s rephrase that, I am a hair product addict. That sounds better. Companies that produce new hair products must love people like me as I am always on the lookout for new shampoos, serums, conditioners etc., you name it I buy it.

Him Indoors sighs as another range of products are spread along the bathroom windowsill, stuffed in the vanity cupboard or crammed in the shower basket. The left over products all go to a good home as I have friends that are also shampoo fiends. Now that I shop on line a whole new world of hair products at the supermarket has opened up to me.

I also find myself lurking around department stores in the Electrical Departments casting an envious eye over all the new hair driers, curling wands, hair straightening irons and hot air rollers.

When the junk mail arrives I head straight to the electrical section to see if any new and exciting hair appliances have been advertised.

This Christmas holidays I decided to let my long naturally curly hair do it’s own thing instead of being fried by a hair straightener. Took a few days to get used to the fact that I was putting a poodle to shame but after a week I got used to the look and the fact that becoming natural saved me about 20 to 30 minutes each day. That time was spent wisely on walks and taking photographs of the surrounding area, but I soon decided that my hair looked far better straight than looking like a floor mop.

So enjoy if you too are a hair product addict, it pays to look nice!!!!

Babs

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Babs · « **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2017, 12:45:42 PM »

Me taken in Brisbane in 2013 when we were out at dinner on Saturday night

Babs · « **Reply #2 on:** March 03, 2017, 10:07:31 AM »

Colorful potted plants on the deck

TokWW · « **Reply #3 on:** March 03, 2017, 12:34:49 PM »

Lovely Babs!

Babs · « **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2017, 01:01:29 PM »

Thanks Toko, I have never grown wild flowers in pots before and didn't think you could do it but this pot has Bleeding Heart, Cornflowers, Californian Poppies, Phacelia and ordinary Poppies an interesting mixture and the pot of Nemesia just keeps flowering and flowering brightening up the deck on sunfilled days.....

Babs · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2017, 10:30:33 AM »

To MySky or not to MySky

For months now Sky has been ringing us up, at the most inopportune times, offering us MySky HDI.

We told them ‘thanks but no thanks we weren’t interested’. So then they took to ringing up offering us the Rialto Channel, once again the answer was ‘thanks but no thanks’ we are not interested.

Finally after about the 6th or 7th call from the Sky Call Centre once again offering to hook us up to MySky HDI for a fee, Him Indoors snapped and asked for the Call Operator’s Supervisor. He told them very politely that we were NOT interested and what part of us not being interested in the MySky HDI offer could they not understand and could they please ask Sky to get in touch with him so he could lay a complaint.

Sky duly rang several days later and Him Indoors laid down the law telling them that all these phone calls were becoming very close to harassment.

So the phone calls finally ceased until yesterday morning.

I was lying in bed when the phone rang about 8.30 am (yep I am a late riser some days), and all I could hear from Him Indoors when he answered was him saying ‘right’, ‘right’ ‘ok’ right’ and then hysterical laughter.

It turns out that it was Sky again, only this time we had been chosen from a select few Sky users to receive, and you will love this, to get MySky HDI installed for free, the box for free and no monthly or yearly payment ever!!

So complaining does sometimes pay off. Don’t think we are customers from Hell, most times we email companies congratulating them on their products or the great service from their staff members but sometimes, just sometimes companies tip us over the edge with their inane promotions and phone calls.

I am going on the conspiracy theory that Sky wants MySky HDI installed in every house in the country and they will go to any lengths to make sure it is. Could be there is a programme inside the MySky box recording every thing we say and do. Ah paranoia is setting in now.

Babs

PS About 18 months ago we cancelled Sky for good as their advertisements were starting to driving us crazy. We now have NEON free for 2 years which came with a package through Vodafone after buying two Samsung s7 Edge Smartphones and guess who runs NEON yes Sky does!!!!!

TokWW · « **Reply #6 on:** March 08, 2017, 12:46:40 PM »

HAHAHAHA! Well done I say!!

Babs · « **Reply #7 on:** March 15, 2017, 06:47:08 AM »

I just found out that our cat is a groaker, check it it out it's a real cool word, now I understand why I only get half of my breakfast each morning

Babs · « **Reply #8 on:** March 15, 2017, 06:53:28 AM »

The Ancient Groaker

Babs · « **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2017, 06:29:50 AM »

Finally a sun-filled day

TokWW · « **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2017, 07:39:35 AM »

A lovely scene - I bet you have some cicadas starting up now or shortly, nice to have the bush background!!

Babs · « **Reply #11 on:** March 17, 2017, 08:26:15 AM »

Hundreds of cicadas, late afternoon out the back it's deafening, the cold wet snap the other day shut them up only one was singing and the cat keeps bringing them inside.

I love the bush up the back lovely big willow tree and heaps of native bush living on a hilltop has its advantages

Babs · « **Reply #12 on:** March 19, 2017, 08:36:31 AM »

Wellington looking stunning this morning already for many waterfront events

JennyLeez · « **Reply #13 on:** March 20, 2017, 12:14:43 AM »

Lovely shot Babs

Babs · « **Reply #14 on:** March 20, 2017, 07:12:07 AM »

Thanks Jenny it was one of those mornings when it was a pleasure to go into the city early and watch the sun come up and also watch the Queen Victoria come into port

Babs · « **Reply #15 on:** March 26, 2017, 09:20:11 AM »

Three Barbara's

Babs · « **Reply #16 on:** March 27, 2017, 01:04:40 PM »

Weeds
04 May 2010 and any other year......

I have been digging out Arum lilies, you know the big white ones that are prized in Europe but run amok here covering pastures and paddocks. I don't like using herbicides of any kind but we succumbed to using Roundup to try and kill off this beasty. To no avail I must admit, they just drank it up like it was a new kind of booze. So out with the spade this morning and out they came in large clumps probably leaving hundreds of small bulb-lets behind but I covered the ground with thick layers of cardboard in the hope that no more will grow.

We also have the dreaded Onion weed. Pretty it looks in drifts with white flowers. Quite charming from a distance and evidentially you can pickle the bulbs and eat the leaves. Not a weed that I want to try and eat. This one needs a small but deadly explosive to get rid of it. Not wanting to upset the neighbours or dislodge the hillside behind us I have had to resort to digging out each perfectly round bulb.

I did a lot of research on the Net to try and find the answer to getting rid of it and was surprised to find a huge list of plants now classed as weeds in this country. Some are still being sold in gardens centres as charming cottage plants. Makes me look at my garden in a different light now.

We were at a Book Fair at the weekend and while waiting under some lovely Oak trees saw that the ground was thickly covered in acorns. I suppose these gentle giants of trees will be classed as a weed next as they were starting to sprout and part of the ground was covered in mini-trees.

Take a look at the list on Weedbusters • Working together to protect New Zealand if you are not sure about things growing in your gardens and in the mean time if any one has any ideas on how I can get rid of Onion weed I would be delighted to hear.

Weedily
Babs

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