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Monday, 6 January 2025

Monday, January 6/2025


 On the way down to the grocery store we pass on the west side a lovely olive grove behind a stone wall. Today a man and a girl are trimming branches and throwing them over the wall for removal. Olive trees are protected and cannot be cut down or moved without permission. Even trimming is restricted. Although there are complaints that developers do not seem to abide by the same rules as everybody else.


At the store the tiny new potatoes are being sold at half the price of the regular (also pretty new) ones. So we buy them. In the South the tiny potatoes are also thought to be less desirable and are therefore cheaper than the full sized ones. Once told a seller that in Canada the little ones were usually more expensive. They were highly amused. Obviously from the school that believes all potatoes should be peeled and small ones are more work.

Have a couple of times received iMessages from someone who believes that my (Manitoba) mobile number is that of a friend called Heather. In the past I responded with“wrong number”and that was that. This time they came back asking what the right number was!

Me: Have no idea. You are obviously trying to reach someone I know nothing about. I don’t live in Manitoba.

Them: Oh, I see. the Heather I know DOES live in Manitoba.. sorry about that 🤓