Tag: kunekune
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Dancing piggie
Tima sit. Good little kunekune. Good girl. Sit Tima. Good Timatanga Moana. Tima – UP! Up more? Very good girl! Tima – roll over. OK, good, yes, Sit. Tima – Play Dead. OK. yes of course. Up. Good girl. Good piggie. And speaking of play: I hope you all have a lovely day. Your own friend…
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In a Pigs Eye
You asked to see Tima’s eye. Well sure, I said. But it was actually quite a difficult assignment. This little kunekune is either very busy elsewhere or fast asleep at my feet. And when I do get a close up it is all eye lashes. But I did try: hmm .. This is what I saw in…
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Short Exciting Walks
Our walks are short at the moment. For two reasons – Tima has very short legs. And then she has to stop every few minutes to play ‘Gleeful Manchurian Mustache’ The Game (the rules are obscure) with TonTon, who can call out “Help me!” in 17 different languages. Actually the rules of the game seem more fluid…
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The perfect O
Of surprise when visitors arrive, complete with bottles of wine, at dinner time when there is plenty to eat. So everything except food and conversation (and of course the bottles of wine) is gently put aside until the morning. Today the sun is shining, we are warming up a little and the calves are galloping about the…
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The trap
Yesterday morning I found the chewed carcass of another murdered chicken where John had parked his truck overnight. Something had eaten it under the truck in the dead of night. Plus another was dead in the run. Something bad was in the chook house again. Something hungry. So far it has killed and eaten seven chooks. And…
The Kitchen's Garden 