Category: Writing
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Is it against the law to plant vegetables on the median strip?
Put your hands in the soil every day. This was my grandmothers advice. She was discussing with me how I should behave when I became a wife. I was being brought up to be a good wife. There was no discussion from the women in my family, about following my heart or whether I had…
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An inspired challenge while sitting on a rickety old chair, no wriggling!!
Greg and Katherine from Rufus’ Food and Spirits Guide challenged me with this series of questions. Actually, and thank you very much, I found this exercise a wee bit difficult. But you guys have such a wry sense of humour! Today I had to think. And as we know thinking is hard!! However here are my…
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Teach a Child How to Cook!
Here is my Birthday Wish and my Christmas wish. In fact my Everything Wish. Teach a child how to cook. One child, one meal. This Christmas it is possible that you may have some children to spend time with. Maybe you are even growing some children yourself! Maybe you are related to a few. You…
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The Christmas Mist – Alone on Christmas Day
December is on its way. You are all in the countdown until Christmas. I can hear you all wrapping and plotting. Writing lists and checking off names. Putting up Christmas Trees. Rediscovering decorations. I know you are thinking about what you will eat and who will be at the table. You will wonder whether your…
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My mother hated Rice Pudding
When my mother was small, her mother became quite ill while pregnant with her fourth child. It was the depression. It was winter. They were struggling like nothing we will ever see. The family had been relocated again and again as Pa went from town to town looking for work. So Grandma had landed in…
The Kitchen's Garden 