Category: Travel
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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…
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Missing the Farmy
So we have gone in search of some animals. Central California has a few animals. This is not Daisy. City Horsies. I am sure that Hairy MacLairy would be more than happy to visit here though. This one is the best indication of the air quality out here. The valley has huge ranges on either side…
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Scalloped Potatoes and Knives
So I was making scalloped potatoes and using my son’s knives. Can you guess what happened next? Yes. You are right. I cut the finger. Really cut it. And I am quite the bleeder so I had to call in a Troop. Who was kind enough to be my hands. And I talked this very…
The Kitchen's Garden 