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Day Off
The mob and I are packing our boots away, getting out our sandals and off to the city we are going. There is a barbecue festival and something called the Green Living Festival – then I will peel off and catch a train back home in time to milk the cow at 6pm. So we are…
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Back they go
The pea fowl have finally discovered the gardens. MR Flowers has been caught eating the zucchini flowers. The naughty, naughty bird. And here is Pania. Jumping into John’s raised bed garden. Don’t tell him – he still has not forgiven Pania for eating a whole row of baby cabbages three years ago. And they are all watching…
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Peas
Peas! We have begun to pick peas from the seeds that Inaki sowed in the early spring. Fresh pea pods are wonderful eaten right from the plant. “The more you pick the more they grow”, I said to Kevin who is Head Gardener and brings us food to cook every afternoon. “Just like hairs…
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Let’s call the whole thing off
Here is my first tomato. I have officially won the yearly competition to produce a tomato before the 4th of July. A little tomato to be sure. But still the promise of more to come. How to grow a winning tomato? Allow any size in the competition. Grow in a very sheltered flower garden at the bottom…
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A scrap of paper
I had a fantastic line to write to you today. The words came to me while I was eating dinner cooked by one of the volunteers surrounded by chattering and laughing young people. It was a sublime collection of words that encapsulated my day. So I tore off a little strip of paper towel from…
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