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The Fourth of July Facebook Hop: Have Fun and Win Prizes

From Sunday, July 2nd at 12pm EST until Wednesday, July 5th at 12pm EST, your favorite authors and blogs have come together to offer prizes on every page PLUS the chance to win part of the grand prize through the giveaway below. Don't miss out!Visit one, or all to participate. Easy entries. Meet some new authors! Discover some awesome blogs. Most of all...have fun! The Fourth of July Hop starts...

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It’s All in A Smile

Thirteen Things about SMILES 1. Definition of a smile - to have or take on a facial expression showing usually pleasure, amusement, affection, friendliness, etc., or, sometimes, irony, derision, etc. and characterized by an upward curving of the corners of the mouth...

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The World’s Greatest Navigator

Thirteen Things about CAPTAIN JAMES COOK There's a really good documentary playing on our TV at the moment about the life of James Cook. It's fascinating and these are some of the things I've learned during the last two weeks of viewing. 1. 1728: Born at Marton (near...

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The Care and Feeding of Candles

Thirteen Things about CANDLES In case people haven't guessed I visited my local candle shop in the weekend. It's called RETREAT and for those who live in New Zealand, they have stores in Glenfield, Newmarket, Sylvia Park and Manukau. 1. Candles convey messages of...

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Absolutely, Positively Wellington

In honor of my recent visit to Wellington, THIRTEEN THINGS about WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. 1. Wellington is the captial of New Zealand. 2. It is VERY hilly, even more so than Auckland and San Francisco. After a day spent exploring, I woke up the next day with sore...

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Inland Island: Karori Wildlife Sanctuary

During our recent trip to Wellington we visited the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. As the name suggests, it's a special sanctuary for some of our endangered native birds. The 225 hectare site includes two dams that used to supply the city of Wellington with water. It was...

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Windy Wellington

I'm off for a long weekend. Hubby and I are hitting Wellington, the capital of New Zealand and also Martinborough. Some of you might recall Lily and Alex from Never Send a Dog to do a Woman's Job visited both places... ...which, leads in nicely to the fact that I'm...

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