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May 2020 Free Book!
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Merry Christmas!
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CELEBRATE
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Sue! My Skies are beautiful every time a new one appears. Yes Neil certainly takes fantastic photo. Has he ever got them blow up? Just capturing the right moment make all the difference.
He hasn’t yet, Trish. We need to do that. His hobby of taking sunsets reminds me of your photographs of wildflowers and garden flowers. I enjoy those so much!
Sue what’s scrunched soxes & bangs? I guess you have different meaning’s to Aussies. I’m curious to know what they could be!!
Scrunched socks are socks with long cuffs that are stretched up over the pant leg and then pushed down to “scrunch” the cuff into wrinkles on the lower calf.
Bangs are a fringe of hair that is cut short and combed down over the forehead.
What are bangs and scrunched socks in Australia?
Sue over here we would call bangs just a fringe? We sure dont have scrunched socks over here?
Scrunched socks were a late 1980s fade in the US, Trish. We don’t scrunch any more either!