Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Black Cat.
Black Cats are much maligned in our fairy tale books. But what will really happen if a black cat crosses my path? Not much I imagine. I have occasionally seen a black cat here. But only out of the corner of my eye. He is not my cat. He looks very well fed (probably on…
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This Old Barn
No-one knows exactly when this barn was built. Or by whom, but legend has it that before Our John’s Great – Grandfather gutted it to put huge harvesting machines in there, (horrible) it used to house the draft horses that pulled the early farm implements. Plus the house cow and a couple of hogs for…
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Is Change Too Scary?
There is nothing new on this good earth. What we do know for sure is that we can change and change is good. But to change you have to lift your head up and speak (or write). My mother used to say ‘A change is as Good as a Holiday’. But let’s keep our hearts…
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Is this Sleeping Pig Lying?
Surely this old pig can not be this tired? Tima the kunekune pig is like a heat seeking missile – a very chubby, bovine, heat seeking missile – when she spies an empty lap. She trots over and lays her tired head in said lap and is snoring within minutes. Wriggling every now and then…
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Fresh Winter Herbs – How to Grow Them.
Growing herbs inside during the winter is easy and rewarding not to mention delicious. In late autumn it is critical to bring my herbs from the cooling verandah to the sunny glasshouse. If killed by the cold, cry I would, for my herbs. So I bring the potted herbs inside early. Crying over spilt herbs…
The Kitchen's Garden 