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A Mathom House of Sorts

The collected wisdom of Justin Hygate on the web (it's a small site).

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July 23, 2010 Travel (broadens the mind)

Back in Jakarta once again

I never imagined I would get the opportunity to travel to Jakarta Indonesia once again after my very enjoyable trip

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July 5, 2010 General muttering / observations from domesticity

Why does everything simple have to be so damn hard?

I am in the midst of assisting my lovely mum relocate into a Retirement Village. After her stroke last year

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April 9, 2010 General muttering / Ramblings of a mad man

Emptying of the Head

On board flight NZ506 to Auckland on a lovely autumn morning, provides an opportunity for a wee blog entry. Not

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March 31, 2010 Travel (broadens the mind)

A Journey to Hiroshima

So it has been a little while since I updated the old blog thingy. Always the way with me I’m

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January 24, 2010 General muttering / observations from domesticity

The resilience of mothers.

This little entry is to record the resilience of my dear old mum.  Mum had a stroke on 21 December

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January 10, 2010 General muttering / Ramblings of a mad man

The Don and his family

Originally uploaded by Justin Hygate It is a fact that I have three lovely daughters. It is also the case

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December 19, 2009 Uncategorized

The Ghost of Christmas Past

I have very happy and strong memories of my childhood Christmas’s.  I put this down in the main to the

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December 18, 2009 General muttering / Uncategorized

It’s Christmas time all over the world…

As the song goes… so a little Christmas message to all our readers (both of you – “Hi Mum”). 2009

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December 5, 2009 observations from domesticity

The modern garage sale…

We are having a garage sale today.  It is actually part two of this epic adventure as we started last

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December 4, 2009 General muttering

Here we go then…

Welcome dear internet traveler to this my first ‘blog’. I have been playing on Twitter for some time and have

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