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.
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
2 responses to “you will love this one . it is for you”
Our pantries reflect so much of who we are, what we value, how we cook and feed our families!
I saw your stories over there.
What what amazing when I looked up the country you are in and why they are so dependent on nations to keep you afloat. I also saw that your country had many many barrels of crude that they exported weird in my book when your own people are crying for some. I will no there is a true crisis when all the planes shut down and our skies are not filled with jumbo jets for all those jetsetter flitting here there and everywhen. Travelers with credit cards maxed out are like junkies 😦 only when the supply is gone can things change. I love having a full tank and no reason to leave my land. Forever thankful to have learned those lessons starting in the mid 70’s here and while trucking. Have a peaceful week hope you got your supply on one on the many ships from China, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, India maybe some from us. 50 ships worth were headed your way.