Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Stoic
Difficult is the essence of stoic here – waiting for yesterdays rain to pass. This chook was also pretty stoic, waiting patiently in the pouring rain for the cow to move away from the boot of the car so she could take shelter. But Lady Astor was not moving too fast, cows don’t move very fast…
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The Two-headed Monster
When we were kids the seats in the cars were bench seats- you could sit four skinny people comfortably across the front seat. (Bucket seats are such a kill-joy). Lovey-dovey couples would sit close together – usually the fella driving and the girl jammed as close as she could get, thigh to thigh, knee to knee. We were small…
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Then it rained but that’s OK
Just as we pulled the last 120 bales of hay under cover in the old crib, it began to rain. Perfect timing. But I have no pictures – I am not even sure how that happened. We just worked and worked all day (then did admin at siesta time), and then got the last of…
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Father Christmas and Pancakes
Father Christmas is a chook. Yes, I know this may come as a surprise. (In America they call chooks – chickens – whereas in New Zealand a chicken is more likely to be found in the freezer section of the supermarket and is never Father Christmas. You forgot I was a New Zealander didn’t you – you do not…
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Butternut Squash Ice-cream
One of our best harvests this year (other than the piles of tomatoes we are dealing with ) are butternuts or butternut squash as they say here in America. Whitney (one of the two chefs in residence) walked across to the other farm on her day off where the butternuts are growing , returned armed with a fat…
The Kitchen's Garden 