Xavier Bage

@franxav (14169)

India

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Social worker, physician, part-time teacher

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I think I might order some river rock

snowy @snowy22315 (191941) • United States 27 Jun

My neighbors have a very nice gravel type insert to demark the ending of their lawn and beginning their walk way. LindaOH was talking about the possibility of gravel on her property. I saw you can get a small quantity on Amazon...

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Xavier Bage I'm sure you'll be able to get it done. It will look good.

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A bicycle for the space age

Judy Evans @JudyEv (357071) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Jun

One of the vehicles on display at the York Motor Museum in Western Australia was the Bowden Spacelander bicycle which you see in the photo. The prototype was designed in 1946 and manufactured in 1960. It was designed to...

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spacelander bicycle

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Xavier Bage It surely is attractive. I hope it gives a space travel feel.

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The story of black pepper

Always smiling @allknowing (148478) • India 26 Jun

We have pepper vines that are trained on the areca nut and coconut trees. Around December we see a few pepper pods turning red. They have to be harvested immediately else the birids will finish them The harvested pepper is...

story of black pepper

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Xavier Bage It's an essential masala in our nonveg curries. As for me I need it spice up my morning tea . It's not grown in our area. We have to buy it from grocery shops.

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A Model T Torpedo Runabout now in a safe place

Judy Evans @JudyEv (357071) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Jun

While we’ve been travelling, we visited a car museum in York. That’s York in Western Australia, not the one in England. In the photo is a Ford Model T Torpedo Runabout. This was found in a very run-down condition in outback...

model t torpedo runabout

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Xavier Bage It must have ruled the roads in those days. Still looks royal. I wonder why it was named Torpedo. As far as I know a torpedo is a ship destroying bomb.

27 Jun

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Delicious home made banana halwa

Always smiling @allknowing (148478) • India 27 Jun

I finally decfided to make halwa as I have done that before. Though there were many bananas the paste turned out to be just 600 gms I added equal amountof sugar, a little bit of ghee and cardamom powder. It is still in the...

home made banana halwa

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Xavier Bage My mouth is watering.

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Happy Rathyatra to everyone

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (20880) 27 Jun

In India the Hindus celebrate happy Rathyatra. Lord Jagannath and his brother sister Balaram and Subhadra are considered to go for chariot journey. Idols of the lords are put in the chariot and they are pulled by devotees. Puri in...

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Xavier Bage In the market I heard people greeting one another saying " Jai Jagannath!" Though I am a Christian I responded with the same words.

27 Jun

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You can't help stupid #2

Judy Evans @JudyEv (357071) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Jun

In my last discussion, I wrote about the groundsman at my husband’s school who was a bit short on commonsense and even shorter on intelligence. Some time after the lawn incidence, the same guy had a Workers Compensation claim...

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Xavier Bage The story of Kalidas is legendary in India. He was going to cut off the branch he was sitting on.

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Applying for a job

Always smiling @allknowing (148478) • India 20 Jun

I do not know how many here are seeking jobs and running here and there looking for one. My days of applying for a job are over. Luckily I did not have to run much. As soon as I was ready I did apply in my own simple way no...

applying for a job

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Xavier Bage You were qualified enough to get this job. You deserved it. However , it's becoming more and more difficult to find jobs in India.

21 Jun

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Telling secrets out of school

Judy Evans @JudyEv (357071) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Jun

The school year in Australia finishes around late November/early December. It’s customary for the senior students to get up to a few pranks during the last few weeks. A bit of backstory first. Most Fridays, when Vince was...

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Xavier Bage Some pranks can turn out to be harmful. Vince dud well to employ security staff .

21 Jun

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Tasmania hits the news for the wrong reasons

Judy Evans @JudyEv (357071) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Jun

A few days ago a policeman was shot dead in Tasmania. This is significant as it is the first police officer to be shot there since 1922, over a century ago. I wonder how many other countries can say that. Tasmania is an...

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Xavier Bage Sad we have to see such sad things in the world . In our country India, this goes as a common news. There are gangsters in every city and policemen are their natural enemies.

18 Jun

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Still Nice People in the World

TaxiLady @Ghostlady (1806) • United States 17 Jun

I went to Walmat..forgot my list, but got everything except the Beef Broth and we really didn't need it right now anyway. On the way to the check out, I found a Real Small Lemon Bundt cake, and decided to try it. At the check out...

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Xavier Bage Somehow, such polite gestures are rarely seen in our part of the world. Sad.

18 Jun

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Week Four of Tuneless Choir.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30713) • Lichfield, England 6 Jun

I went to Tuneless Choir again on Wednesday night. This was my fourth week. Sara, the choir leader, gave us more details about upcoming events. She also said that if we wanted Tuneless Choir T-shirts we needed to buy them from...

tuneless choir

track list

tee shirt

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Xavier Bage With so many beautiful and soulful songs sung, I wonder why the group is called Tuneless Choir!

6 Jun

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Believe it or not, these hold the same amount

Judy Evans @JudyEv (357071) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jun

You can see a small jar and an empty packet in the photo. I should have stood the packet up so you could see it better. Both the packet and the jar contain the same amount, which surprised me as the packet looked much smaller....

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Xavier Bage The jar appears to have more ginger than the packet. Perhaps it's an optical illusion. Yet somehow I had developed a mistrust for the business runners. They print the quantity on the pack but when you weigh it the quantity comes to be less though minimal....

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Decoding Your Pet's Animal Language ~ Sounds Remarkable?

Deep-Or-Whimsical @DeepOrWhimsical (36) • United States 26 May

Are you familiar with cat or dog translator apps? And have you ever used one? If so, what are your thoughts about them? If not.. doesn't it seem fascinating? How cool could it be, to translate what your pet is actually, or.....

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decoding animal language

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Xavier Bage They do have a language. It's we who have not cared enough to learn it.

5 Jun

A prop has grown out of proportion

Always smiling @allknowing (148478) • India 1 Jun

We had propped a plant with the help of this white bougainvilae cutting and today that prop has grown out of proportion. The cascade of white bougainvillae is a spectacle for passersby on the road. We hardly see it from inside...

bougainvillae in all its splendour

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Xavier Bage That looks gorgeous. Bougainvillea come in different colours. We have two in our garden but unfortunately we don't have white .

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Vince's favourite niece

Judy Evans @JudyEv (357071) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Jun

Of Vince’s siblings, we are closest to his younger brother. The fact that he lives quite close by probably has something to do with it. He has three daughters, and we see quite a bit of two of them. The youngest lives in...

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Xavier Bage Vince is a loveable uncle. I'm sure the nieces love him. It looks like they are playing some game. What is the game?

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Off to Guitar Center soon. How are you spending your Saturday?

The Horse @TheHorse (228096) • Walnut Creek, California 31 May

Today (Saturday) is the only day I teach at Guitar Center in the morning. I'll be done at 1:30 PM or so, and I think it's supposed to be in the 90s F again. You know what that means: I'll be at the pool with a book this...

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Xavier Bage I wish I lived near you , I'd have improved my guitar playing skill. I started learning guitar in my college days. Since then it has remained at kindergarten level.

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I travelled by Amtrak

Always smiling @allknowing (148478) • India 29 May

I have talked about my trip from San Jose to Oxnard by train. This post is about my friends who joined me This was the last leg of my US package tour When I reached San Francisco there was a message in my hotel room from one...

amtrak

travelling with friends

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Xavier Bage I can guess how wonderful the trip must have been.

30 May

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If you're a local, it's Wagga

Judy Evans @JudyEv (357071) • Rockingham, Australia 25 May

The photo is of the vegetation near the salt lake where we camped one night. It has nothing to do with the discussion. Vince came across this on a Facebook page entitled Dull Men or something like that. There is a town in New...

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Xavier Bage I was born in a tea estate called Dumchipara . For all colloquial purposes "para" was omitted and first two syllables were pronounced in more than four different ways confusing the hearer. The "D" was pronounced like the Latin D by tribal workers and ch as s....

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I am missing my gardener

Always smiling @allknowing (148478) • India 25 May

He worked for two years and I could call him Jack of all trades He did everything around here - swabbing the floor, washing dishes, grinding masala, scraping coconut, watering the garden, trimming branches, shopping, doing the...

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Xavier Bage A person like your gardener may be found one among a billion. People of such excellent qualities are rare.

30 May

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