Ele Ludemann

New Zealand

Rural NZ with a blue political tint; celebrant. Daughter has low grade serous ovarian cancer. : https://t.co/2B450Iuk2f and https://t.co/VbCMee0JeR

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Woman of the day

1 week ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

Woman of the day Woman of the Day Dorinda Neligan born OTD in 1833 in Cork, a volunteer nurse in wartime and a much respected headmistress who took to civil disobedience at the age of 76 in the cause of votes for women. Naturally, she did it in style.
Passwords #%$*&! passwords

1 week ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

I’d offered to buy tickets for friends for a celebrity debate. I went to the website, found the event, clicked on buy seats, selected 10 and clicked to checkout. That’s when I had to sign in. That’s when I was asked for an email and password. That’s when I struck the problem. The website told me either my email address or password was wrong. Neither was because this is a website I use infrequently and to avert the problem of forgetting one or both, I’d saved them to my computer.
Word of the day

1 week ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

Word of the day Susurrant – making a low continuous indistinct sound; softly murmuring; whispering or rustling. This entry was posted on Monday, June 16th, 2025 at 3:00 pm and is filed under language. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Woman of the day

1 week ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

Woman of the day The Woman of the Day is the woman who sold apples from a cart OTD in 1866 in Westminster Hall.
Strengthening rural communities

1 week ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

The stereotypical view of a farmer is of a Fred Dagg or Wal Footrot, easy going, laconic, with a suboptimal approach to business. The reality is that like people in any other occupations, there’s a range of personalities and performance and as with any other occupations, farmers and those who work for and with them sometimes need help. That’s where Rural Support Trusts come in. They are a network of rural people helping rural people and in doing so they strengthen rural communities.
Quotes of the week

1 week ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

Isn’t it fantastic that we have got people with ambition, aspiration and positivity, and we should be celebrating success. I know how hard people work in New Zealand, and there [are] some pretty inspirational stories. As a country we want people to be able to move themselves from one set of circumstances to a better set of circumstances, and it’s okay to celebrate this success.
Word of the day

1 week ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

Word of the day Agig– excited; agitated; something small or of a diminutive nature. This entry was posted on Sunday, June 15th, 2025 at 3:00 pm and is filed under language. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Milne muses

1 week ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

Milne muses “If you are alone, the country is your companion; and nature becomes Nature, a person, someone to whom you can almost talk.
Home baked or bought?

1 week ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

How times change. Last century I’d never have dreamt of doing it let alone admitted to having done it. But the nineties have given way to the noughties, and if a decade with a name like that doesn’t give us an excuse to throw off the shackles of the past I don’t know what does. So, blame it on millennial madness if you will, but I did it and I don’t mind who knows – I took bought biscuits as my contribution to a plate for supper although there was absolutely no excuse for doing so.
Word of the day

2 weeks ago | homepaddock.wordpress.com | Ele Ludemann

Word of the day Pis aller – a course of action followed as a last resort; a makeshift recourse or expedient; a make-do, a less than optimal solution; a workaround; stopgap; an expedient adopted only in desperation; the less or least desirable alternative course of action. This entry was posted on Saturday, June 14th, 2025 at 3:00 pm and is filed under language.