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WORKING TOWARDS SPRING
Believe it or not there are signs that the seasons are changing. Slowly – slowly. The icy muck tells us that the struggle between winter and summer has begun.
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THE WATER HOLE
Yesterday was divided between long periods of sitting waiting as I flew impossibly through the sky and then short periods with long corridors of full out “excuse me!, coming through”! RUNNING.
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HUMAN HAND
HUMAN HANDS or the lack thereof. Mechanisation has always been a part of the horticultural industry, not so much in the picking but definitely in the packing, and now that there are less migrant workers and the existing workforce is getting older – mechanisation is taking big steps to keep the industry of growing food alive…
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NO INTERNET
Right here in the middle of a Californian city. It has worse internet than we have in the country. Supposedly there is a technician coming tomorrow but this has been an ongoing problem. So I am not holding my breath. Constructing posts using the app is not as fun as using my computer. Plus where…
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THE WALNUT ROOM
To catch my flight to California from O’Hare airport this morning I had to come up to Chicago yesterday afternoon and stay the night. Before my dinner engagement, I went through the rabbit warren underground passageways then up to my favourite old watering hole on the seventh floor of the old Marshall Fields Department Store for…
The Kitchen's Garden 