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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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Recovery and Return Time. Time to Return.
Straight from my Substack account as a piece. Let’s see if I can bring you pictures that way!! If you pop over to the ORIGINAL post you can hear me read it. I love reading to you so let me know if you listen. I am going to see if the pictures post! Fashioning a…
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Caught between a rock and a hard place.
To enable me to post pictures here again I need to go back and delete some old posts. Or upgrade again! It is the most terrible choice. And I don’t make enough money here to pay for the even existing blog pages let alone an upgrade so it is a conundrum. I am off the…
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never point in a pub
An afternoon alone in a pub – but not too alone with you and the others – as we all hold ourselves together, holding in our soft middles to hide our soft feelings. CECILIA AT THE KITCHENS GARDEN AUG 02, 2026 This was posted across the way in my substack pages. Pop over for more!…
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Writing on Trains . Mind the Gap
When I lived in London (about thirty years ago now: over thirty, I think), I used to catch the trains all the time. I either walked or trained. Never buses. I have never been a fan of buses. London life felt fast but wasn’t really, arrival times were a little fluid. There was a local…
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you will love this one . it is for you
Good morning from sunny Sunbury in Australia. I am here for another year then back to the Farmy. Life is changing all the time and I bring you with me. With joy! You’ll know by now that I’ve taken my writing over to Substack. I pop back in here to the archives often; there is…
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are you sick of all this tension already
Me too. The immobile oil tankers, plus war in the region where most of our oil originates is unnerving. People dying. European hospitals overflowing with military casualties being airlifted in. Refineries shutting down. The tension is palpable. We are going to feel this on the farm, too. Thankfully our fertilizer is local chicken manure and…
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