tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post2271833198633278388..comments2023-10-26T00:45:54.703+13:00Comments on More Canterbury Tales: Old stuffThe Sagittarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05513045101496737031noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-62862597884570596702009-05-21T23:49:34.965+12:002009-05-21T23:49:34.965+12:00Oops, the comment box cut off the link to the stor...Oops, the comment box cut off the link to the story, so here it is chopped up...<br /><br />http://www.cnn.com/2009/<br />WORLD/asiapcf/05/21/<br />new.zealand.millionaires/<br />index.htmlOwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-81131104018132226592009-05-21T23:47:02.844+12:002009-05-21T23:47:02.844+12:00Hi Sagit,
I saw a story on CNN today that may expl...Hi Sagit,<br />I saw a story on CNN today that may explain why you've been so quiet of late... :<br /><br />http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/21/new.zealand.millionaires/index.html<br /><br />"Global hunt for accidental millionaires"<br /><br />"(CNN) -- An international manhunt was under way Thursday for a New Zealand couple who fled after a bank mistakenly paid them NZ$10 million (US$6 million) when they applied for a loan of just NZ$10,000.<br />New Zealand authorities said they had sought help from Interpol in locating the couple who disappeared May 7, two days after an employee error at Westpac bank paid them 1,000 times the amount they asked for."<br />==============================<br /><br />So, would you know anything about that??? I guess it's not easy blogging while on the run, trying to connect to the net on wifi hotspots in airport lounges... while on the lam. Just remember to send a little bit of the loot to Steve ! So, where you you going to hide??? Must be awful having Interpol after you... I've heard there are some well appointed caves in Afghanistan you could use??? Well whatever happens... have fun ! While you can !!!Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-14864016222509549782009-05-20T22:13:19.212+12:002009-05-20T22:13:19.212+12:00Hi Amanda, I have tagged you for a List! No obliga...Hi Amanda, I have tagged you for a List! No obligations, but if you feel like doing it, would love to read your answers!meggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00061112627819270427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-25644118617198514142009-05-20T12:57:07.688+12:002009-05-20T12:57:07.688+12:00Hi Sag, just a good morning from France to you... ...Hi Sag, just a good morning from France to you... and hoping all is well on sunny South Island.Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-49288653867226593592009-05-18T20:16:00.000+12:002009-05-18T20:16:00.000+12:00Your Maori doll is very like one my daughter had, ...Your Maori doll is very like one my daughter had, who was naked when we bought her. I dressed her, & we still have her. It was about 1972 when she was acquired. I have made reproduction porcelain dolls & I am always apalled at the restoration on older dolls. FFS they were not originally painted with harlot colours & lips!!<br />Loved the story of how your well travelled doll reached you!meggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00061112627819270427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-75424885730946978772009-05-17T21:04:00.000+12:002009-05-17T21:04:00.000+12:00Seeing those dolls presents such an evocative pict...Seeing those dolls presents such an evocative picture of childhood and lost childhood, Sag.<br /><br />You might make a grown man cry !The villager:https://www.blogger.com/profile/05958651498465950885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-57151320567516249372009-05-17T12:23:00.000+12:002009-05-17T12:23:00.000+12:00Laura, my younger brother has a one-eyed Panda too...Laura, my younger brother has a one-eyed Panda too...maybe they could form a support group?<br /><br />Owen - thanks for that linnk, I think I have visited there before via Meggie's blog.The Sagittarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05513045101496737031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-41965547293290020292009-05-16T10:36:00.000+12:002009-05-16T10:36:00.000+12:00Poor Sally! Naughty Amanda!
I hope she didn't put...Poor Sally! Naughty Amanda!<br /><br />I hope she didn't put a curse on you.<br /><br />Extraordinary thing to have lugged home all the way from Egypt though when it looks like a doll they could have bought in any large and decently-stocked toyshop!<br /><br />I have a one-eyed Panda (don't tell the RSPCA!)The Poet Laura-eatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779308486569849157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-33282618089075973302009-05-15T01:00:00.000+12:002009-05-15T01:00:00.000+12:00Hey Sag, top of the French morning to you, althoug...Hey Sag, top of the French morning to you, although I guess it is evening where you are already, just wanted to pass on a hot tip to you, just found a blog which I think you may really enjoy, a real nut case if there ever was one, a must read, and he needs more followers to appreciate his squirrely vision of the world... so if you have a minute between all that darn fossicking you're doing, whatever that is, take a look at :<br /><br />http://lonegreysquirrel.blogspot.com/Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-24062637481356420232009-05-14T08:58:00.000+12:002009-05-14T08:58:00.000+12:00Steve - I have thought about doing that especially...Steve - I have thought about doing that especially since I saw a similar doll in a museum but I'm not sure where you would go to get a doll valued! <br /><br />Rol - grrr. Not a typo, just appalling grammar. I wasn't born in 1955 but some years after! (Mind you, my word verification for this comment is "prove")The Sagittarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05513045101496737031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-62866179697230681722009-05-13T23:07:00.000+12:002009-05-13T23:07:00.000+12:001955!?
Surely that's a typo!1955!?<br /><br />Surely that's a typo!Rolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103804480646939038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-63602472331340861992009-05-13T18:12:00.000+12:002009-05-13T18:12:00.000+12:00My mother has some dolls which a Japanese pen frie...My mother has some dolls which a Japanese pen friend sent her when she was in her twenties - they were still in their cellophane last time I saw them... might be worth getting them valued... and yours too!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-50549204907446120962009-05-13T17:48:00.000+12:002009-05-13T17:48:00.000+12:00Owen, you will have to revisit cos I hit "piblish"...Owen, you will have to revisit cos I hit "piblish" before adding my music clip! Must have been doing too much fossicking!!The Sagittarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05513045101496737031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28571746.post-35520485653619532332009-05-13T15:53:00.000+12:002009-05-13T15:53:00.000+12:00She does look a bit malevolent, but after being to...She does look a bit malevolent, but after being tortured and what not, I guess she may still have a bit of a chip on her shoulder, that the plaster repair folks may have missed ? :-D And thanks for teaching us a new word via a vivid and pertinent illustration... I'd never had an inkling as to what "fossicking" meant... now I know.Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.com