The Kitchen's Garden

August 28, 2012

The precious light of dawn

It appears that against my will I am being carefully and inexorably towed out by the tide of an ebbing summer, back into the dark mornings. The brightness of summer is leaving me. Too soon. Too soon. The sunrise is only at the strength of a whisper as I carry my buckets of warm water…

August 27, 2012

‘Success is the ability to go from one failure..

… to another failure, with no loss of enthusiasm’. Winston Churchill. I love that one, it describes us all so perfectly. It certainly describes this cheese as it proceeds with its metamorphosis from cheddar to puddle. Ah well. Churchill also said something about ‘success not being final and failure not being fatal.’ But that…

August 26, 2012

You can run…

But you can’t hide. On the way to pick up the honey frames that the bees had cleaned. So I could pop them in the freezer for 24 hours to kill any bugs, then wrap them and store them for the winter. I saw this. Devastation. On the lower portion of the vines. The Vidal Blanc.…

August 25, 2012

And now for something completely different

We are beginning a brand new project. Can you guess. We are still in the planning stages. I will need your help. I am sure we will manage to make a great big mess first. Yes. It is a building project. My first big building project was the large deep Kiwi verandah on the West…

August 24, 2012

A day in the life of the Piggie Shush Sisters

I thought I would show you what the Shush Sisters get up to during the day. Charlotte and Sheila. My naughty Hereford piggies. The Shush Sisters have a night time residence in the barn. It has big inside sleeping quarters, that can be closed right up for the winter, and an outside concrete courtyard. In…