Tag: cold
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KICKING THE COWPATS
I was out kicking cowpats yesterday afternoon – as you do. As you would – if you had seasoned cowpats to kick. But they need to be properly seasoned. If you kick them when they are too wet they stick to your gumboots. if you kick them when they are too dry they fly like…
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PIGLET PICTURES AS WINTER DESCENDS
PIglets in a second but first I was watching the blowing snow through the green of the glasshouse as I watered the plants being grown for summer consumption. It is an interesting lesson in the juxtaposition of seasons. Spring piglets in the barn. Snow in the fields.
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DOING ALL I CAN
Taking a step back from mothering the mothers and their babies is hard for me. But the new babies had a good day yesterday. The barn is closed up and quiet. Womb-like except for the lack of warmth. Poppy’s Seven have learnt to drink and run and are not hanging about in the cold preferring their…
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REALITY
Yesterday, when my new second-hand shelves arrived in three random boxes ready for me to put the shelves together without directions and with pieces missing, I thought how this would be a fun game to play on a Reality TV show. The player is handed a box with no labels and no instructions and not only must…
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TWO BY TWO
I try so hard to allow myself to feel the contentment of what is in my moment. To lie in the damp sunlight and chew my cud. To wander from patch to patch lazily searching out green. Instead, I endlessly worry about things that have not even happened yet. Committing solution scenarios to memory. Looking for problems that…
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