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  • January 24, 2012

    Lemon Butter Cake

    Well, it was so warm yesterday morning that I put my clown suit  (those ugly thick padded overalls the men use when digging slowly on the side of the road) and my Carhart jacket into the washing machine.  Both were pretty pongy. Then of course the temperatures plummeted and I was caught inside until my…

  • January 23, 2012

    Daisy loves lemons, she won’t get the scurvy

    I have piles of beautiful lemons.  So I decided to  make the lemon cheese (lemon curd). This is how Mum’s recipe, scribbled down in 1981 read. It is certainly spotty and dog eared and up for interpretation. juice of 8 lemons sugar to taste 1 oz butter 1 tblsp cornflour 2 eggs, whipped Make in…

  • January 22, 2012

    He got Cold Feet on The Farmy.

    Yesterday we had glorious sunshine and not a breath of wind.  This morning sitting in my high up studio, the sky still black all I can hear is wind. One of the challenges I have set myself, for these pages,  was that all the images, every day, were to be from the farmy, our gardens…

  • January 21, 2012

    Sweet cold farmy day.. we love the farmy days.

    Snow. Light Powdery snow.  We had another  snowy day yesterday.   But it is still too dark outside for me to see what happened in the night. We have no  street lights in the country so there is no way of knowing without going out.  Some farms have enormous lights that light the whole yard…

  • January 20, 2012

    Time and motion. Multi-tasking. Do it once-do it right. Do it your way.

    But how do you manage all that they say. You have a farm and all those gardens and all the cooking from scratch, baking bread, chopping wood, old fashioned stuff and your husband works, you write a daily blog and you are inherently lazy. Well, people don’t actually say I am inherently lazy,  I mean…

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