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 so much here and I love a troll through the old posts. But the new writing is over there, and I’ve been busy.
Three posts in particular I think you’d enjoy.
The first is called three pantries we roll through my mothers pantry in NZ , my mother in laws lack of a pantry in the USA and drift softly into a big pantry and larder that was managed by the housekeeper of a big house I worked as a nanny in. In the UK. Here is an excerpt:
“The house was always ready. No matter who was in the kitchen everything was at hand. Not braced for disaster, not stocked impulsively: just ready, in the way that a well-run household had always been ready before the daily shop made it possible to think about dinner only when you were already hungry.”
In the middle of a fuel crisis here in Australia and New Zealand , that sentence lands differently than it might have a year ago.
The second is “the barn calm / what the animals taught me. This post brings my Substack readers back here to WordPress to enjoy a few minutes in the archives. If you are new here you will like this one.
It has Four moments from the farmy archive: Sheila and I walking down to the back paddock, a blizzard that turned the old barn into something close to a cathedral, and Sheila saying good night .
The third is “a murder, an unkindness, and a lie.” It uses the history of the Tower of London ravens as a way into something larger: the stories powerful people tell, and the ones we quietly choose to believe.
It’s the piece I’m most proud of this month. ⬆️
All three are over on Substack. ❤️ Free subscribers can read them all. If you’d like to upgrade to paid it’s $5 US a month, which I know is another thing to spend money on right now. But it makes the world of difference to me and I’m very grateful.
I will continue to pay WordPress to keep the archives up so feel free to comment here, too.
Come and find me over there at Substack . I’d love to see you.
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