Category: Life
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‘Success is the ability to go from one failure..
… to another failure, with no loss of enthusiasm’. Winston Churchill. I love that one, it describes us all so perfectly. It certainly describes this cheese as it proceeds with its metamorphosis from cheddar to puddle. Ah well. Churchill also said something about ‘success not being final and failure not being fatal.’ But that…
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You can run…
But you can’t hide. On the way to pick up the honey frames that the bees had cleaned. So I could pop them in the freezer for 24 hours to kill any bugs, then wrap them and store them for the winter. I saw this. Devastation. On the lower portion of the vines. The Vidal Blanc.…
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And now for something completely different
We are beginning a brand new project. Can you guess. We are still in the planning stages. I will need your help. I am sure we will manage to make a great big mess first. Yes. It is a building project. My first big building project was the large deep Kiwi verandah on the West…
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A day in the life of the Piggie Shush Sisters
I thought I would show you what the Shush Sisters get up to during the day. Charlotte and Sheila. My naughty Hereford piggies. The Shush Sisters have a night time residence in the barn. It has big inside sleeping quarters, that can be closed right up for the winter, and an outside concrete courtyard. In…
The Kitchen's Garden 