Category: Humour

• Walkabout the FARMY with the Big Animals

  Day Two of the Farmy Round up. Wow. It takes two days to walkabout the farmy now.  So much to see. Here is a grubby Paisley Daisy… ..with her good friend Queenie Wineti.  We tried to breed daisy twice this season but both times it did not take.  Then it was too late in the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 17, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Photography, Sustainable farming, The Farmy

  cows, punkins patch, sheep, skunk, spun wool, The Daily View, wool, Yesterdays temperature

• Dutch Apple Pie

  I am not a food blog but I love food. The old Codger loves food too especially dessert pies. So every week he looks through his old recipe books, and he has a fair few of them, and chooses a pie.  This Dutch Apple pie is made just like an apple pie except you top…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 5, 2012

  Humour, Photography, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  chickens, Dutch Apple Pie, Pigs in the chook house, The Daily View, the hen house, The kitchen’s garden, The temperature

• Butt-heads Butt Heads

  This morning shot is for yummy chunklet who loves to see the sky and does not see much of it, marooned up there in the big city! The sun was still so low it was obscured by the Rat House.  And a rose by any other name.. is a rose whose name I cannot remember but…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 3, 2012

  Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Writing

  head butts, water barrels, white rose, writers desk, writing competition

• Find a Man we would shout and laugh like drains!

  I can’t decide whether this shot is utilitarian or beautiful.  I love the lines of colour as the corn comes out.  When we were kids we had a babysitter. Her name was Pat.  And she was perfect. She was a 60’s girl.  Once my parents had gone out and before bedtime, she would take my…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 23, 2012

  Humour, Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  babysitters, cameras, computers, new Zeakand, travel

• You know what happens when I start telling the stories…

  …it is like a little word sized window is left open at night and stories hop in, one after the other, while we are sleeping.  Before you know it there is a litter of stories giggling on the floor  just waiting to trip you up when you get out of bed. I grabbed this short…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 20, 2012

  Humour, Life, Stories

  new zealand, newspapers, plane, unmarried mothers