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Fringe benefits of estrangement

On 25/06/201825/06/2018 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized11 Comments

I walked through the hot, still streets of Jerez with Sema snoozing in her sling. At times it seemed as if everyone in the city must have been asleep too, and then I would pass a tavern and a wave of mellow conversation would drift out on to the street. It was sunny and warm, …

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When push comes to shove

On 05/02/201805/02/2018 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized20 Comments

NOTE: This is a birth story, featuring the words poop, amniotic fluid, blood, cervix ... you get the idea. So if it's your type of thing, just skip this one and we’ll be back to keeping chickens and sowing seeds before you know it. I had to write it, though, because I feel almost as …

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Recipes like shopping lists

On 13/12/2017 By Garden CorrespondentIn recipe6 Comments

My mother had a photo album - with black pages and adhesive corners - filled with photos from her childhood. I loved to go through it, staring hard at the photographs to try and piece together a story about her life, and the photo above was a great favorite of mine because I found in …

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Novel hunting

On 31/10/2017 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized4 Comments

Happy Halloween! I've been silent for a good long while, I know, and it has been an eventful seven months or so. I had a sad sort of summer, but I didn't really notice how sad it had been until the weather changed in late September, the air suddenly cooling and lightening as the heavy …

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On-Ke Wilde 1937-2017

On 31/03/201731/03/2017 By Garden CorrespondentIn Uncategorized11 Comments

takes talent there are two kinds of human beings in the world  so my observation has told me namely and to wit as follows firstly those who even though they were to reveal the secret of the universe to you would fail to impress you with any sense of the importance of the news and …

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