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How to Make Puppy Pillows for your Pooch!
It was cold yesterday. The frost hung on the trees all day. No wind. The world stayed frozen white with a cover of cloud like a stainless steel lid. On these still cold sepia days, it is hard not to succumb to malaise. The weather sits there like a big lump. So I went…
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Late afternoon on the farmy: Two Cocks Crowing
Late afternoon on the Farmy is a peaceful time. Well it should be a peaceful time. Except I let all the chook-house chickens out of their house for a run around. Which meant that the Barn Roosters rushed out to challenge the Chook House Roosters. Son of Neanderthal Man and the Senior Chook House…
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May I introduce you to a few people I have read with this week
I am hoping to do something new with my Sundays, though as you know my plans have a bad habit of going array. But I want to Introduce you all to some of the new readers and commenters of these pages and some new collections I have discovered on my own travels. Often we…
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My Big Fat Mama
Good morning. I am up here in my loft with the vaulted ceiling and big South windows. Sitting at my desk. The fire in the big room below is keeping me warm and I can hear rain outside. The windows are still dark. It is early, early morning. John and the neighbour boy brought my…
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Frozen Fog on the Farmy and a Giveaway Heads-Up!
Yesterday I gave my Old Camera a good talking to about sustainable farming and how every one must pull his weight and be useful on the farmy. How we are in a cycle of give and take and cameras have to give, give, give. I told him that he is an important camera because he…
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Marmalade Chicken – Hands Up Who Saw THAT Coming!
Two recipes today! Often I use the Honey Lemon Marmalade I made yesterday, to baste a roasting chicken. I could make this one for you but it is just as easy to describe. Simply stuff the bird with chunks of onion, lemon, apple and thyme. You will not eat this stuffing so no need to peel…
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