Category: Humour
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Marmalade poses as Dennis the Menace
Marmalade, your wee puss, raised by hand since he was only a couple of weeks old, is a horror. He seldom touches the floor, preferring to zoom about the room flying from chairs to tables to couch to sideboard, leaving a frothy broken tide of disaster in his wake and trailing wild dogs and cats…
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A Cold Beauty is it’s own Consolation
When I wake up in the cold mornings, with the howling skies and the winds so sharp and clear they cut your teeth. The ground is hard as pure hate. The ice lurking dark and deep under the snow. I cannot believe that there will ever again be a morning when I sit getly on…
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A Kitty Elevator
As you know when I was remodeling the lounge area of the house I took out the ceiling and turned the attic into a loft. (The builder was shocked and needed some convincing) This gives me lots of height above my head and if I must live inside I have to have height above my…
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Laundry Soap for Bad Girls
When I was a teenager I was sent to live with the Nuns. Well, it was the 70’s, NZ, and I was a pregnant convent girl from a big Catholic family with a sick mum. This is where bad girls ended up, they said. The Convent I was sent to was beautiful, old, fragrant, with…
The Kitchen's Garden 