Category Archives: Travel

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy Jig

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

We rose at 3.15 am  California time and began the pressure cooker air travel race to reach The Prairies  by 6.30 pm.  Travelling is all about waiting, interminable waiting, interspersed with wild spurts of frantic power walking navigating literally MILES … Continue reading →

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Following a Mandarin through a massive Californian Packhouse

Posted on November 19, 2011 by

We are going to follow a mandarin today.   We are going to visit a fruit packhouse, it is my last day in Central California. Nothing you will see  is sustainable or organic and absolutely nothing is old fashioned. But … Continue reading →

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Missing the Farmy

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

So we have gone in search of some animals. Central California has a few animals. This is not Daisy. City Horsies.  I am sure that Hairy MacLairy would be more than happy to visit here though. This one is the best … Continue reading →

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Scalloped Potatoes and Knives

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

So I was making scalloped potatoes and using my son’s knives. Can you guess what happened next? Yes. You are right. I cut the finger. Really cut it.  And I am quite the bleeder so I had to call in … Continue reading →

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Up in the hills of Sacramento

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

I have reached SACRAMENTO and have been gently transported to the Big House somewhere  up in the hills. We did a lot of this yesterday.  But today it is quiet and I will soon crank the big empty kitchen into … Continue reading →

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Go West Young Man

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Actually it is me who is going out West.  On Wednesday.  The Matriarch and I (in my favourite  role as the Handmaiden) are flying out to California to attend  her eldest son’s wedding and  then I am sloping off to … Continue reading →

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Netball: The other New Zealand Sport.

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

Now if you thought rugby was popular. Check out netball. If you go to New Zealand in the winter you will pass girls playing netball often. So Focus. I need to say right now that I know almost as much … Continue reading →

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New Zealand Week: watching the rugby from the prairies!

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

As you know we do not have cable TV. But because the rugby world cup had low ratings in the States, it was being shown on the free TV channels out here on the prairies. So we got to see … Continue reading →

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New Zealand Week: Fish ‘n’ Chips In honour of the rugby WIN.

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

OK It is possible that in the far away or near future, you may take it upon yourself to go to New Zealand to visit. Mainly because we have the best rugby team in the WORLD!  In that case you … Continue reading →

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Salmon and Shrimp Chowder because I can’t go Fishing on the Prairie.

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

I have a friend, who lives by himself in a beach house on stilts, up the East Coast,  in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.  It is a beautiful bay, deserted for most of the year. He is on the beach every … Continue reading →

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