Tag: thekitchens garden
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The Kitchens Garden has…
Many gardens .. Some I never even get around to showing you. I will try – but not today. I can’t seem to find my rhythm this summer – not so far anyway. I love the long necks on cows. We have a savage amongst Poppy’s babies. Someone has bitten a chunk out of one…
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Letter from Pat
Today we are back on the road to take Pat to the train. As well as her calm support, Pat has helped us enormously, firstly being the farmers wife and secondly being the Piglet Mother while I do chores in the morning and afternoons so Lurch will miss her too. Yesterday was a day with only a little…
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Sheila is a tall girl
Sheila is 72 inches long ( 6 foot, 182cm) and her girth is 68 inches ( 172cm). She is 34 inches high at the highest point of her back and when I measured her girth I could not reach all the way around her, I had to lean over her back and kind of throw…
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Up Close. Very Close.
And personal. Always. Up close and personal. Both the turkeys and their ever present associate and ringleader Geraldine the pea hen. As I dole out the feed into separate bowls for the pigs, they have their heads in the pigs bowls, as I lean in to scoop chicken feed into the white bucket they are leaning…
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Mr Flowers and his Tail
Wonderful isn’t it. You would think that carrying that length of tail around would be a bother but I suppose feathers do not weigh much. And it will keep growing yet. Last night the temperatures dipped down as low as -7F (-21C) . With wind. Pretty cold. And the wind makes it bitter cold. Everyone got an…
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