Category: Life
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Shooting Wide – Uncut
In the film industry if you are working on a low budget film (which we often were) you would often shoot really tight. Using only a small space. Then you did not need to dress too big an area. Thereby cutting down on your expenses. For a while now I have been shooting really tight on…
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How to make Celi’s Sweet Chilli Sauce
Look at those beautiful grapes, if I could make a wine that tasted just like these grapes I would be thrilled, and look at my beautiful flower, eaten by the bad bugs. But still beautiful. Thing Two asks that no-one notice the little drop of milk on his nose. He is trying so hard for…
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Easy Apple Butter Ice-cream
Something bright and sweet just for you and I. And a thank you for yesterdays tremendous response in the Lounge of Comments. When we were little and living by the beach, and before our Mum became ill, we used to have what Mum called a family hug. There were eight of us and we would…
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Being a stranger in a strange land, carrying a little bit of home in my pocket.
Do you ever feel like laying your head flat on the table and just bawling. Just close your eyes and lay the whole side of your face onto the table and cry. Not where people can see you. Not as an exhibition. Maybe, when you are alone in the kitchen cleaning up after the dinner…
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Frogs cry
This is going to sound like a Tall Tale but I swear it is true. Yesterday morning began as an ordinary day. I milked Daisy the cow. Then Queenie Wineti convinced me that the cows should be allowed out on the greening grass for a bit. Daisy has been schooling her in the Intense…
The Kitchen's Garden 