Cecilia at 'The Kitchen’s Garden Travels'

Cecilia at 'The Kitchen’s Garden Travels'

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so - is gardening a hobby, she said
Is gardening a hobby or a lifestyle choice or a necessity or a luxury - what do you think? For me it was my income. Not now though. I have changed…
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the nuns, the roses and voices raised on christmas eve
It was 1978, my family at the beach was caught in a time warp with Mum sat in the middle of it. Like an elegant spinning spider, propped up in bed…
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A Caucus of Cacklers . TKG Take Ten
The sooner we get those bloody roosters out of there the better.
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everyone got a seat at the table, the big table
Unless they proved to be a dick then they got sent to eat outside. Our last week on the farm in the US.
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Lock Up the Pigs
FreeBee the rescue hog says Yes Please Lock up Big Jude for a while and give me a rest from the madness! That sounds political. But this is not a…
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from freeze to thaw to freeze to arse up
Almost. Arse up. Maintaining ones dignity as a farmer in a landscape covered in a thick layer of ice is no small feat. Watch my brain freeze slowly over…
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more chapters. gardens. cats. a day of it.
“Fear is the original sin,” wrote John Foster. “Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something. It is…
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Four Little Pigs in the Barn . TKG Take Ten
When it rains all the animals and birds take the day off from foraging and hang out in the barn. Not the little black pigs though - they forage IN the…
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snowy walk-about and farm animal catch up
Oh we do get around. Last month I was in Melbourne and this month I am in Illinois.
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Alone in the holidays is not sad. It is a gift.
Many people are alone in the holidays. Many people - particularly us immigrants - us wanderers of the world - feel a deep but elegant ‘missing’ that we…
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I call it: "the singer effect"
Sewing was to be as important a skill to me as ant farming. I never could think inside out and could only dream of the gorgeous clothes I would never…
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Cows - TKG Take Ten
Cows. And kids.
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