Tag: humour
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Wanna Kiss?
“Come on, TonTon – Wanna calf kiss?.. I can give you a special slobbery one – Aunty said you would like one! She said to come play with you. She is tired.” TonTon is deeply unimpressed. Aunty Del giggles with her eyes closed. “Hmm … the world is a very flat place from down here..…
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Sheila and the flies
Sheila is being an old lazy bones lately and it is not even hot yet. I try to get her to come for a walk but she just goes from one lying-down-spot to another. Her favourite being anything to do with compost. If there is a nice fresh cowpat thrown in she is especially pleased.…
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Marmalade poses as Dennis the Menace
Marmalade, your wee puss, raised by hand since he was only a couple of weeks old, is a horror. He seldom touches the floor, preferring to zoom about the room flying from chairs to tables to couch to sideboard, leaving a frothy broken tide of disaster in his wake and trailing wild dogs and cats…
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The bees are alive, and beating the cold back with a stick.
I know that the cold (we are below freezing for a while now: 3F (-17C) this morning) might try and make us feel bleak. Pulling at the loose threads of our cardi’s trying to unravel us. Butting heads with our warm outlooks. But look what we can do in the cold. Pasture-raised chicken on the…
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My Monsters and I go for a Walk and Wonder about Stuff
The sun is so low that when it does pop out through a crack in the solid grey that is our sky, all our shadows make us look like monsters. Screen left is Boo and screen right is Sheila. Off on our walk. Everyone wants to check out the compost heap on the way. Off…
The Kitchen's Garden 