Tag: life
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Oh dear
We had a good old fashioned farming day yesterday. Mama and Mia were shifted into the rat house paddock, separated from the lambs now for a good while. Mia has gone for company and Mama because that naughty Meadow is still stealing a drink every now and then and Mama needs to be in tip…
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Pigs love Milk
Beautiful Daughter, who you will remember is in Melbourne, still reads the Farmy pages every day. She was on the phone yesterday. Write more stories, she says. I said, it is summer here I don’t start the real writing until December 26. I cannot think of a single story in the summer. I am too…
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‘Success is the ability to go from one failure..
… to another failure, with no loss of enthusiasm’. Winston Churchill. I love that one, it describes us all so perfectly. It certainly describes this cheese as it proceeds with its metamorphosis from cheddar to puddle. Ah well. Churchill also said something about ‘success not being final and failure not being fatal.’ But that…
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Applause on a Saturday
To stand on a stage and receive applause is a very wonderful thing. I remember working on a show once where I was dressed by a woman who had been quite the socialite in the late 40’s and 50’s in germany, and the gowns she lent me for the show were so beautiful. I wanted…
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