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I Am Sailing
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am currently on holiday- indulging on a P&O cruise of the South Pacific on a ship called the Pacific Jewel. There is nearly as many staff on this ship as there are passengers (they like to count things on this ship and then Amaze and Surprise…
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Counting the Beat 2-3-4-5
Venus in Virgo likes to count things. And one thing I have learned in the last week or so is that that ships have a mountain of statistics to Amaze and Surprise. This morning we did a cooking demonstration & tour of the galley (for those of you taking note of my incredibly in-depth technical…
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Venus in Virgo- by Phryne Fisher
“Miss Jones was the sort of person who is concealed, like the nun in the foundation, in every organisation which does Good Works. Patient, dogged, meticulous, vastly overworked, unpaid and completely unappreciated, she finds, files, calls, arranges, soothes and ameliorates papers, contracts, tradesmen, repairs, hurt feelings and Very Important People. No one notices her until…
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Uranus Retrograde July 2010
Uranus is currently stationary in the 1st degree of Aries. He blazed in on a burst of flame at the end of May and shook us all up for a month or so before quickly running out of steam and retiring to his poolside deckchair with a Cosmopolitan to catch his breath. Not that you…
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This is How it Feels- Mercury in Cancer
This is How It Feels This is how it feels When you wait for a call that never comes Are you waking up ’cause you miss someone? This is how it feels When the trust you had is broken, And you’re left to burn with your heart wide open Think about the last time…
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Queen of the Jungle
There we were: 2 Aussies on our last night in London. Scorpio Hubby & I had been for dinner at my sisters’ place in Maida Vale and were on the Tube heading back to the tiny square that was our hotel room, when I commented that we hadn’t yet seen Buckingham Palace (other than from…
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Because Y is a Crooked Letter and Z is no Better
‘Because Y is a crooked letter and Z is no better.’ My Poppa used to say this to me when I was very young in answer to any of my ‘but why’ questions. I always accepted the response without further question. But then again, I always thought my Poppa was such a clever man. He…
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Silver Heels- The Sun in Cancer
I first posted this last year, but as it still gets regular hits, have updated it slightly for the Sun moving into Cancer this year. So, here is one I prepared earlier: My Nan will be 92 soon. She still wears strappy heel sandals, still wants to dance past midnight, still watches her weight and…
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But Why? Part 1
I love Google. When the goldfish on my desk at work was recently ill, I googled the symptoms and got a wealth of forum information…ok, not all of it was perfectly reliable. My Gemini friend took it one step further and googled “how do you perform swim bladder surgery on a goldfish?” Surprisingly there were…
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Relax, Take it Easy- Mars in Virgo
Relax, Take it Easy. Mars has finally, after a longer than usual stay, left look- at- me (does that mirror need to be moved a little to the left?) Leo and has moved into Virgo. All that romantic, dramatic, luxurious flair can get a man down. And as for the performance pressure associated with keeping…