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  • November 1, 2012

    Charlotte the Pig is Feeling Poorly

    She has started limping quite badly. And a fat pig limping is a very sorry sight.  It is  one of her back legs below that rather large ham of a butt-hock. Sorry Char had to say it. I have called around and on occasion a pig will pull a muscle when they are young and…

  • October 31, 2012

    The men came…

    … and hauled the crop away.  Good riddance, I said But now everything is grey. Golden has had its day. The chickens and the pigs and I Stayed inside to Play. It was cold outside Yesterday. A Gale had come out to say Hooray The wind was chasing after itself all day And L’il Puss…

  • October 30, 2012

    NaNoWriMo – Let’s Take our Characters for a Walk: Everyone can Play!

    When I was a teacher of drama, in a high school in New Zealand, we would frequently devise characters for  improvised plays.  One of the exercises, when we were devising, was called Take your Character for a Walk.  Everyone in the classroom would assume his or her favourite character,  then the students would move about…

  • October 29, 2012

    Sunday Farm Cameos

    It seems we had a day of cameos. Solo performances. A Sunday. Son of Son of Neanderthol Man. Just watching. Author with his big liquid baby eyes.  The Duke Of Kupa on the prowl.  Paisley Daisy does calm Sunday very well. Sheila the Babe doing her imitation of Charlotte’s flying ears. The Daily View.  And…

  • October 28, 2012

    There was a car hiding in my barn – off with its head!

    The peacocks have done a good job of camouflaging this car. It is a parts car, for a project that is on hold, and was using up an entire bay in the barn. So out it goes into the cold. To make room for animals in the winter.  Now you see it. Now you don’t.…

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