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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Hans J on April 07, 2012, 05:01:09 PM
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My best wishes for a
:)HAPPY EASTER :)
for all members of SRGC !!!
Hans 8)
with a home made Torta di Mandorla ....mhhhhh :D
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A magnificant Italian treat for Easter.... thank you, Hans!
I'll make my offer now to eat an extra slice for anyone who doesn't eat almonds! ;) :D
Easter Greetings of peace and happiness to all Forumists.
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Thank you Maggi and Hans ! :D
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Grazie! Buona Pasqua, I miei amici ;)
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For Maggi, for all you do.
http://www.venere.com/blog/chocolate-perugia-italy/
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Grazie! Buona Pasqua, I miei amici ;)
;) senza problemo ;D
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Happy Easter from me :).
I got my easter egg reduced in Tesco today. Ok I told a lie ::) I got three easter eggs ;D
Angie :)
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Don't you know Ron, that Maggi slopes off to Perugia (via Belgium) most weekends? ;D
I have not had a single Easter egg! This is not a way of admitting to multiple eggs, but a declaration of strong will and determination to lose a few kgs over the next 12 months. My only chocolate has been one from a small box someone gave to Roger LAST Easter, which shows how addicted HE is. Maybe I can beat this thing yet! But I do wish all Forumists (and lurkers) a wonderful Easter with gardening weather whether in the northern spring or the southern autumn.
We in NZ have a couple of interesting events, both based on Central Otago, up the road an hour or two from here. Nothing to do with chocolate though.
One is the biennial "Warbirds over Wanaka," a magnificent airshow with all kinds of planes (about 65 this year) taking part especially including restored WW1 and WW2 planes. It is hugely popular, 45,000 people there yesterday (Sat) and more expected today and tomorrow.
The other is the now annual "Great Easter Bunny Shoot." (Bunny lovers turn away now.) Over more than a century rabbits have destroyed huge tracts of the Central Otago landscape and many farmers and run-holders were forced to walk away from their land. Some 25 years ago, a group of local land owners got together and went on an organized shoot over the area and bagged many thousands of rabbits. Gradually this event became known and is now a big international thing with teams of shooters from many countries, even including from the US marines! How no-one has been shot is a miracle I think, so many people in the area, all shooting like mad but it is exceptionally well organized and regulated and over the years has gradually made for some control over the rabbit population in the area. Literally millions of rabbits have been shot over the time.
There will be links to these events for anyone wanting to know more but I'm not good at copy/cut and paste. It always seems to go wrong on me. >:(
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We could use some of those shooters in our street, Lesley! The bunnies are getting into our garden nowadays as they realise there are no longer any dogs on this property! >:(
I've always thought that an appropriate Easter meal would be a rabbit and boiled egg casserole - anyone got a recipe? ;D
Happy Chockie Egg-Day, Everyone!
cheers
fermi
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Vrolijk Paasei voor alle forumnisten!!! ;) ;) ;D
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Happy Easter from my garden! :)
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Happy Easter from the East
of Germany ;D ;D ;D
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Happy Easter everyone
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Happy flowerful Easter, friends !
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Happy Easter. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that New Zealand shuts on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Must play havoc with the fresh produce in supermarkets to have two days with nothing moving off the shelves!
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Anthony, NZ isn't the only place that shuts down on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Nothing open here today.
Doubt too many would want to be out today anyway.
Easter Sunday
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Helen, this is what we would love to see on Christmasmorning!
Happy eastern!
Lina.
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Helen,
Have you been out sprinkling talcum powder around the garden again to make it look like it's been snowing? ;D
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Same here, Lina. :(
Paul, here's a sight you might not see too often. :)
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Happy Easter. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that New Zealand shuts on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Must play havoc with the fresh produce in supermarkets to have two days with nothing moving off the shelves!
Our slight nod to the religious in our communities. We still pretend to be a Christian country even though most are non-practising anything much and those from the Middle East, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and Iran and the Far East especially Indonesia and Malaysia, are much more devout in the practice of their various religions that the reguilar Kiwi of European extraction. Best thing about the two days, is that there is NO TV ADVERTISING on GF or ES.
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For a recipe Fermi, how about an Aussie version of the Scotch Egg. Hard boiled egg wrapped in a fillet of rabbit breast, flattened to wrap around and sprinkled with a little salt, pepper and fresh thyme, then quickly deep fried to cook through the meat without much further cooking to the egg. I think that would be a winner. ;D
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I was listening to an interview with the former chief executive of Auckland SPCA yesterday. Fascinating stuff. He indicated that NZ has the highest number of cats per head of population in the world, and that didn't count truly feral cats, but did include strays. He said that cats were easily disposable by being abandoned to fend for themselves. No wonder the kiwi and other wild birds are doomed!
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Mmmmm ..... yes they are true survivors. And second to humans perhaps the best at wiping out other species?
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Paul, here's a sight you might not see too often. :)
Helen,
OK, now you've gone totally overboard with the talcum powder!!!!! ;D
I'm sure there are a few hills hoists about in snowy areas of Aus as well. Not quite the snows you have, at least for the vast majority of the areas in Aus that do get snow on at least occasions. :D
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We're having a week in Queensland in July. It better not snow then! :o
Our slight nod to the religious in our communities. We still pretend to be a Christian country even though most are non-practising anything much and those from the Middle East, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and Iran and the Far East especially Indonesia and Malaysia, are much more devout in the practice of their various religions that the reguilar Kiwi of European extraction.
So my son tells. When it's Diwali a fair proportion of his class at college (school ::)) is absent. They must really be devout, as more or less the same students are off during Ramadan. 8)