Cat photo cute

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Just because its so adorable ...

Awwwww...

And the below picture (Puss from the Shrek movies) is most definitely me playing The Old Lady Card when I'm forced to stand too long in queues, or want to reach a sullen bank teller's heart -

Rugby World Cup - starting soon

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New Zealand is a rugby nation.  I'm not a sports person (confession time!)  But it's hard to miss the World Cup atmosphere;  it's everywhere.  Even though the World Cup, this time around, is in Japan, it's practically all that New Zealanders are talking about at the moment.  The first games start this weekend.

Both Auckland and Wellington have artistically altered some bus-stops to represent a rugby grandstand and I dare say other centres have followed -

Apparently the New Zealand All Blacks team (current holders of the World Cup) are playing arch-rivals, the South African Springboks this weekend.  Our nation will be holding its breath.

My Auckland Jaunt

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This past week, I flew up to Auckland for two nights to see "School of Rock - the musical".  A good show, and very lively.   On the same night, a  Fleetwood Mac concert was in town, and the city was buzzing with thousands and thousands of Fleetwood Mac fans (all over age 40?  And all wearing black?)

 I walked around the Viaduct area.  It's full of super-boats and "In" restaurants.  The soon-to-be America's Cup  (yachting) races are centred here.  Emirates Team New Zealand will be defending the cup in 2021.

those long-back women's tops

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I was searching for a casual summer top.  The sales assistant kept showing me tops that have a long back and a short front.

"No, no.  I don't want this type-"

"But they're all the rage," she said.

Obviously this woman had never ballooned up in weight in just a year (curses to all those cheese sandwiches!) " Long-back tops make me look ridiculous," I said.  "I'm sorry to all the manufacturers of long-back tops but for voluptuous and luscious women, like me, those tops just won't do.  When someone looks at me they think that my tummy is so fat that it's making the top I'm wearing hitch up in the front."

"Surely not," the assistant tsk-tsked. And she dug out half a dozen more tops, most of them still in the long-back style.   No doubt the woman was attempting to show me how wrong I was -

Nope.  In a case like this, the - cough-cough-ahem -  slightly overweight customer is always right -