Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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The difficult answer
What the young people saw yesterday… “Often. A little bit often”The stories are just as important as the spelling. For the latter; after the children have written their farmy stories (they have a special book) we collect the spelling words, correct them and add them to our collected words list (individual home made dictionaries). When…
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Lambs: A Photographic Essay
Yesterday had horrible weather. The wind was so strong and so cold yesterday that a few times I walked backwards from the house to the barn rather than have my face blown off. But thats OK, the Kiwi builder was on the other side of the house so he did not see. But the…
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Mama has a surprise for you: FOUR LIVE LAMBS!
You are going to love this. The photos are terrible. They were taken last night and Mama will not tolerate the flash. These snapshots, taken within the hour of their birth, under the barn light, show you really little. Except that there are four little lambs in fleecy coats milling about. That they had all…
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Home Made Peanut Butter, Home Made Laundry Powder, a Home Made Life
Home made is my favourite way because the ingredients in anything should be recognisable or at the very least readable. And if I make something myself then I know for sure what I am eating or using. I just don’t trust store bought. Only some ingredients have to be on the label. Some origins and…
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Kupa shows his bad side.
All my city clothes were peeled off, stepped out of, abandoned and dropped in snail heaps on the bedroom floor as I morphed back into miss c. I will pick them all up later I promise but I was late for chores and everyone was calling. They knew they could use my guilt about being…
The Kitchen's Garden 