I am home again. And like every time I come home to the farm I am haunted by this little nursery rhyme.
To Market, to Market
To market, to market to buy a fat pig;
Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.
To market, to market, to buy a fat hog;
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.
To market, to market, to buy a plum cake;
Home again, home again, market is late.
To market, to market, to buy a plum bun;
Home again, home again, market is done.
To market, to market, a gallop a trot,
To buy some meat to put in the pot;
Three pence a quarter, a groat a side,
If it hadn’t been killed it must have died
There are a few variations of course but this is the one I grew up with.
My Mum did not sing (due to a car accident when we were all very young) and she lost her singing voice so I grew up chanting nursery rhymes in her breathy low tone while other children grew up singing them.
This chant will run through my head for the day!
The sun is coming up. I will take a picture of the sunrise for you then get my work clothes on. Then the dogs and Camera House and I will begin the day. Tomorrow I should be able to bring you pictures of everyone. Word is they have all done well in my absence. Which is as it should be.
The pigs will be glad I am home as John has been feeding them at 4am on the way to his work. So there will be plenty for me to do over next few days getting their beds back up to date.
My trip was marvelous I feel quite refreshed and ready to go. And I am very grateful to all my guest posters.
The weather for the next ten days has sunshine and, except for tonight, will not go below freezing. So my first big job is to get the four middle sized pigs back out of the barn and into the rat house paddock with the root cellar.
One long weekend to California early next month – then I am home for another season so there is no need for everything to remain so simple.
My second big job this week is to sow the first wave of cabbages and brassicas. They will grow on in their trays for a while. I know that we will still get more wintry weather but I am going to prepare for an early spring just in case I get the opportunity. We have had such a mild winter here.
There is a high of 38f/3c forecast for today, a little bit of wind but nothing noteable.
Hard to believe that only yesterday I was breezing about London and the day before Milan and now I am back on the flat, flat, quiet, quiet prairies!
Life is grand.
I am looking forward to getting to work and so I will get going now and be back with a decent post tomorrow.
Have a lovely day
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
42 responses to “Back on the farm.”
Good morning and welcome home.
Thank you Nadia – i hope you are having a great day!
Great thanks. Had yoga this morning and made a Boeuf bourguignon and a pear clafoutis for dinner with friends tonight.
That rhyme always reminds me of Blade Runner. Welcome home – I can’t wait to see the pigs 🙂
Ha! You beat me to it; that’s the first thing I think of when hearing that rhyme 🙂
Welcome back, wanderer. Time to grow some slender roots for a few months, like your brassicas…
Welcome back. We are glad you are home. One guest blogger grabbed me and now we are following each other’s blogs☺.
Must feel so nice to be home Celie yet strange to be able to say – oh yes earlier in the week I was in Milan! My hubby had a short trip last year to Milan and drove across to Venice (without me – so unfair) – but now he says he wonders if it was all just a dream.
Also great to be back home on the farm! Cheers!
At least in the Days of Yore, when we Yoreans travelled across the Big Pond to London, Paris & Italy we sailed 5 days on ocean liners, time to get our minds around the far far distance we were going. Welcome back home, Celi, which was only a sleep away after all. I enjoyed each of your guest bloggers so much.
Welcome back! Lovely to know you are home safe and sound.
I am sure you left just yesterday or was it the day before. Time flies! Welcome home C. Happy settling into your routine.
Love from a sweltering 34 deg C Sundays River.
🙂 Mandy xoxo
Welcome back. Blimey that went quick! 😃
Safely home, welcome back to the New World! Looking forward to catching up on photos of the critters. Thanks to all the guest bloggers, they did a great job!
We have been promised a cyclone in the next couple of days … we wait with bated breath! Welcome home so very happy you weren’t trumped 🙂 Laura
Oh yes, very good you didn’t get trumped… I hadn’t remembered that till I just read Laura’s comment. Any trouble coming through Immigration? ~ Mame 🙂
Welcome home! Loved reading about your trip and enjoyed the guest bloggers. Thanks for having them.
Welcome home from a terrific holiday! I thoroughly enjoyed all your postings, but suspect you’re happy to return to the mundane for a while at least. And I feel certain all your critters will be happy as little mice in cheese too. A bright sunny day here today but not as mild as your temps… will not get above freezing till Saturday then appears it will really warm up at least for the balance of the week, which hopefully will wash away this great dump of snow we had last weekend. Hope you have a great day! ~ Mame 🙂
Welcome home!