Tag: country
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SHEILA SHOCKED BY RUMOURS
… of her disappearance. Actually she is quite chuffed that you noticed that Miss C and Camera House don’t get down the back to photograph her often enough.
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THE CASE OF THE MISSING EGGS
Since I moved the ducks sleeping quarters into the barn their egg numbers have declined. Only two yesterday. I suspect a skunk. So I have begun a trial. I hate to go backwards but tonight I will herd them back into their old tin hut for a few days and see how many eggs I…
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YESTERDAY’S YESTERDAY
Because you all live in my yesterday. Here are the skies from yesterday’s yesterday – the day before that day – they were magnificent. They seemed to want to speak or warn. Omenish. Full of portent. But the skies words were too slow. Too low. Too nebulous. I watched but could not hear. Like a…
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PINCH AND A PUNCH
AS kids, a Pinch and a Punch for the First of the Month brought great and terrible delight. Little girls shrieking, giddy with release, naughtiness, our innate cruelty acceptable for just this moment, at being allowed to pinch and punch and “NO RETURNS” just this once. Hard. No-one ever does a pinch and a punch…
The Kitchen's Garden 