There is a small war being waged out in our garden. It’s me against the snails and slugs. Two weeks ago the Middle Boy and I planted out the seedlings that we’d lovingly coaxed into life on our kitchen window sill. There were zucchini, water melon, rock melon, tomato, beans, basil, dill, cucumber, pumpkin and […]
Wordless Weed-Day
I’m playing Wordless Wednesday at BabbleOn today!
Hello Spring!
Finally it has stopped raining and starting sunning! It’s amazing what a little sun and a heck of a lot of rain can do. The grass is so green and so lush and so long! The big kids spent a long time just lying in the grass yesterday, soaking up the sunshine and enjoying being […]
Grand Garden Plans
August is fickle. It is definitely still winter here, but August tricks me with it’s sunny days. The sunny days confuse my brain into thinking spring has already come. It makes me want to put on shorts and go outside to dig in the garden. But if I were actually silly enough to break out […]
A Fairy Story
The Fairy Concert – by Zoe. Once apon a time, a long long time ago, in a valley, far, far away there lived some fairies. Some of the fairies were Sun Fairies and they liked to dance in the sunshine. Some of the fairies were Shadow fairies and they liked to dance under the moon […]
Tomatoes in May.
It’s gotten cold here. Not quite freeze your toes of when you get up to pee in the middle of the night for tenth time kind of cold… but cold enough to put the fire on every night and to watch the frost glittering in the sunshine on the way to school in the morning. […]
Just Your Average Day on the Pickle Farm
A quiet Sunday morning on a long weekend. The Baldy Boy had just left for an hours bike ride before I handed over the keys to the three external children. I was going to invoke my ‘free pass’, cooking snicker doodles before a child free afternoon of singstar and dinner with friends. The suddenly I […]
The Hunter.
We can hear the vacuum as we approach the dwelling, but as we enter the natural habitat of the house wife, it becomes apparent that this is no ordinary cleaning task. On closer in inspection we can see that her aim is not simply to clean the floor, she has a more sinister, deadly goal […]
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