Category: Life
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The Fantastic Fellowship of Books and Help-Meets.
While I had help on the farmy. Feeding out. Climbing up and down the ladder for me. Throwing in straw for the piggies. Sheila was thrilled and slightly dismayed as she had to remake her bed. Making me lunch and trimming naughty Marmalade’s fingernails. You were all in the Lounge of Comments creating a magnificent…
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So: What are you reading?
I have no photographs from yesterday. How did this happen? Yesterday morning I drove out to visit my people and half way down the road, I discovered that my body is not ready for the driver’s seat yet. But I had promised so I continued. When I got home, I did only critical things…
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Are peacocks noisy?
Tui the peahen very kindly clambered up on top of one of the Car Carcasses so I could get a better shot of her for you. (Crouching down is still out of the question for me). I was asked the other day whether the pea fowl are noisy. Not really. In fact from late summer…
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How to make Bacon and Egg Pie
In New Zealand if someone says to you ‘Would you like a pie?” or even a piece of pie, they will be talking about a savoury pie – meat pies, chicken pies or bacon and egg pies and the whole gamut of concoctions in between. A pie has pastry on the bottom and the top…
The Kitchen's Garden 