Category: Travel
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Multi tasking would be better as a monotask
This is the result of multi tasking. Do not mix trying not to repack, simmering a redwine reduction for tonight’s pasta, making a homemade pizza for lunch, cleaning out the fridge, stamping cards and making the Final List, plus cleaning the basement laundry when I really should have been tidying the bedroom. A beautiful crust,…
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Please Mrs – Don’t Eat me!
Look at the kittens face, silently begging the chook not to take a bite. I have been packing. I hauled my silver suitcase out to the barn and weighed it on the feed scales. And I am just under the allowed 50 pounds. So barring any last minute additions (JOKE) I should be ok. Being…
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Slow-Say Day.
SLOWSAY I Glimpsed many pictures but took not one For our Page, Yesterday. I Heard lots of words but wrote none To remember, Yes-T’day, I Bought a big silver suitcase, though, To carry along the way. Someday – Soon. I Say Yes to Today. You too? 23 sleeps until lift off. Are you coming to…
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Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy Jig
We rose at 3.15 am California time and began the pressure cooker air travel race to reach The Prairies by 6.30 pm. Travelling is all about waiting, interminable waiting, interspersed with wild spurts of frantic power walking navigating literally MILES of corridors to find yet another elusive gate. Why is it that my connecting gate…
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Following a Mandarin through a massive Californian Packhouse
We are going to follow a mandarin today. We are going to visit a fruit packhouse, it is my last day in Central California. Nothing you will see is sustainable or organic and absolutely nothing is old fashioned. But interesting nevertheless. This packhouse packs the Cutie mandarins. Mostly I am interested in the architectural…
The Kitchen's Garden 