Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Kupa the Peacock finds an unlikely friend
Kupa: So who are you then? Are you a minion? I was promised minions. Oh, maybe you are the butler then. Get me another drink. My champagne has gone flat. Peghorn: Uh no. I am not sure what a minion is but I am pretty sure I am not a butler, I am Peghorn your…
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The easiest Hollandaise sauce in the world
This is a Hollandaise sauce that is fast and easy. Anyone with a blender can make this sauce! No-one can get this wrong. I am sure the purists will swoon in horror. It is not a high brow sauce, but it is perfectly adequate for every day eating. And tasty. No need to stand stirring a pot…
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How to use grey-water to water the garden
See the Dairy Mistress field coming up lovely and green! That smoke in the distance is the farmers burning their ditches. This is how they clear out the ditches around here. As you know, in preparation for a drought or at least a dry summer we have rain water barrels under every water spout. Also we…
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They have closed my road
As you know we live about a mile from a highway and I intended to drive the Free Green Dodge down my little road and to the big road and park it on the family land that borders the highway and sell my asparagus and plants. It is quite a busy little highway. (a car…
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Finding Kupa
It had just rained when we arrived a little late to the Bantam Swap. Maybe many years ago it was a sweet bantam swap but no longer. The fairgrounds were heaving with the most curious and slightly terrifying mixture of peoples and animals. Hundreds of animals, birds and people. Cages piled up everywhere you looked. …

