Category: Life
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Bad Frost and another Loss.
This morning we have a bad frost. I still have so much in the garden not quite ready to harvest. So it is bad luck. Last night before we drove up to meet eldest son’s bus from the airport, we covered the frog garden with a tarpaulin. And other favourite tender plants with blankets. Especially…
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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…
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Mail for miss c (and Hairy MacLairy). What a day!
The post mistress called. A box had arrived in the village with my name in it. She was sending it out with El Postino right away. I love having a local Post Office with someone running it who knows everyone -we must fight to keep it! Anyway, my new second hand camera body had arrived.…
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Pigs Posing as Construction Crew
The Shush Sisters have been working hard at spreading the new soil around their front yard. What I do is – each day I sprinkle some corn about the earth and then they push the soil around as they hoover. After that they lie on the hills, which looks amusing but impossible to get a…
The Kitchen's Garden 