Category: Vines and Wine
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Eggs
Look at Sheila waiting quietly for her dinner while Poppy stomps about shrieking through all the dishes, making it impossible for me to retrieve them. Usually I have all the bowls out of their area before dinner time, but yesterday I forced myself to go to the supermarket and buy fresh vegetables and was late home. The…
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Human Burial Rites
In the last two days three members of The Fellowship have lost someone they loved. A husband, a father, an aunt. People. While exchanging emails with each of our friends it has become very clear to me that many of us have very different, what is the word? ways? family traditions? protocols?. when it comes…
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Sheila my big fat Pig
I realised yesterday that we have started our annual fundraising for Sheila and yet some of our newer readers will not know why. Sheila is a very special pig. I have collected some older photos of her for you to show you how special. Sheila is a Hereford Pig. The Hereford swine are still listed as a…
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News!
Good news and middling news .. kind of. Marmalade had her kittens yesterday. That is the good news. The bad news is that she had SIX kittens. The good news is that we have homes for three and the rest have work to do in the West Barn. But first poor wee Marmie has to raise…
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Play on the beach
I am sending you this message from the East Coast of the North Island, New Zealand. The children (who are no longer children) have rented a second cottage on the edge of a cliff just around the beach-bend from Castle Point. We have two glorious nights here before we go through the hills and into Wellington…
The Kitchen's Garden 