Category: Humour
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the face of halloween
“So what happpened on the farm today? ” Our John said, as he tracked his muddy boots across my newly scrubbed kitchen floor. “Oh, nothing much – I planted 300 garlic bulbs, the cooking oil car got a flat tire when I was out at the old farm so I abandoned it but I got a good shot…
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Tima and Tane
Yesterday I put Tima and Tane in a little field together. I loaded Tane into his travelling crate and John helped me carry him across, (Life is so much easier on the one day a week that he is home – if you can find him awake of course!) I am not so sure Tane will follow me yet,…
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Tane of the night
This was the morning yesterday, clear and cold with a good hard white crunchy frost. Later yesterday evening Jake and I drove up to Chicago to the United Cargo depot to collect the latest member of the farmy family. After the shortest of waits Tane Mahuta,our kunekune boar baby, in his new big white crate, was…
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Never say never
Sometimes I stare at the Title Space and nothing enters my mind. Actually I often stare with nothing in my mind but we all know that by now. ‘Never say never’ sprang to mind last night when I began to load this page. There are always hiccups along the way. Not major ones. just little…
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Tree-ed
Marmalade being a nice wee well behaved house cat. Marmalade being a nice wild don’t -even-think-about-calling-me-down tree cat at the top of a very tall maple. I am not good at judging heights but it is higher than the house. She likes to be high. This high. miss c “You get down from there this…
The Kitchen's Garden 