Category: Vines and Wine
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Willy Nilly
When we got home from Rushville, Indiana, arriving with our lovely cargo of two corrugated iron huts for assorted animals (three hours there and three hours back), I found all the cats milling about on the barn table waiting for dinner. There is no point in attempting to herd cats as you know so I just grabbed…
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The Evolution of a Blog
Originally posted on Press Publish: When people ask me what my blog thekitchensgarden.com is about, I often find myself pausing to think a moment. My little blog has developed and blossomed in a number of unexpected directions. Like a bloggy middle-aged spread. It is not only about my big kitchen-garden anymore. It is so much…
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A Field Trip
On Saturday I took myself for a field trip to visit a friend of mine who has a wee farm up on the ridge a few miles from here. Look who lives out the back of her house. Because of the slight elevation and the snow the images seem to sparkle. Her neighbours farm. The light…
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The Great New Zealand Barbeque
All us expats live with two homes. Lucky us. Unlucky us. We can meet and eat and laugh and drink with some of the most important people in our entire lives at the great New Zealand barbie, set in an urban vegetable garden with wine and laughter and still worry about the ones we love and have left…
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Kids and Toys
Kids and Toys. Toys and Kids. I miss the farmy already. But I will be getting ready to go home in a week. So no time for missing. I think that our new cow will be arriving back at the farmy in the next few days. I will get Jake to take a photo for…
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