Category: Life
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For all cat lovers
Another tiny peek at Authors kittens. By my reckoning they are about 5 days old. They can both easily lay in the palm of my hand now. Growing fast. They are very wriggly and busy though. I brought them out into the light for a photo and just came out and fed them there. Then followed…
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Cleopatra is enthroned
She had a rather low key arrival on the passenger seat of a rusty white courier van. Rather weirdly (and this happens to me so often I don’t often think about it anymore) I decided to walk the dogs to the end of the drive, which is something I almost never do and the rust…
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New babies in the loft!
(I have it on Good Authority!) Now I know what all the squawking was about the night before last. I tried to tell you. Says Tui. Two tiny tiny kittens. As long as my thumb. I heard their mewling after the milking yesterday morning and look what I found tucked away behind a bale of…
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Sometimes piggies are not pretty but bees always are …
At last the farmy is looking springy. I even mowed the lawns yesterday. Gardened for hours wearing a heat wrap to protect my back. And look at our new header, it says it all. Charlotte’s shape is slowly changing. I told her to open her eyes for this picture or it would look like she…
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Leghorns Liberated
The leghorns have been liberated from their warm basement home and are now out in the small pen in the corner of the big chook house. The small pen is called Fort Knox because it is absolutely predator proof, one year rats killed about 6 of our little chickens, since I made Fort Knox I…
The Kitchen's Garden 