Category: Vines and Wine
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Pickled Beetroot amongst the bustle.
What a lovely day it was yesterday. Cool, with a little breeze. Different neighbours popping in and out feeding Daisy their garden leftovers or borrowing hay making tools. Yesterday I felt for the first time as though I was part of my little local rural community. And that is hard as a foreigner in a…
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The Kitchen’s Garden Garden!
The gardens this year have largely been a disappointment. Crops like the potatoes, cucumbers, zuchinni, butternuts, pumpkins, and beans have either refused to fruit or curled up and died due to that extreme heatwave we had. But the aubergine, beetroot and capsicum all in the drought resistant frog garden are doing very well. Now that…
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Lavender Lemon Cake
Bobby Blanc moved into his new quarters yesterday. Now he sleeps in the barn sun-room and has access to the corridor paddock. He literally trotted around and around thrilled to bits to be out and about. Kicking up his heels and holding his head high. Naturally TonTon and Mary’s Cat spent a very busy day…
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Miss C gets her groove back
The country house was heaving with children. The wedding punctuated by baby gurgles and laughter. We attended the ceremony under the trees, seated in rows of white chairs under big old trees planted by Johns grandfather and father. I sat ever so calmly in my lovely summer dress my legs demurely tucked to the side.…
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Farmy Walkabout
We are not looking directly at Daisy, in fact this shot is of Peghorn. Do you see him. Bottom left.That little patch of orange feathers. Apparently Daisy is doing a Mama and not looking at us either. She is being so good, and so patient – her udder is just so enormous now that it…
The Kitchen's Garden 