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Month: September 2014

Mama has a brand new lens.

Mama has a brand new lens.

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! So if your newly arrived Papa said to you, “I have your Christmas present here, do you want it now or do you want to wait for Christmas?” you would, of course, as a reasonable adult fully in control of their faculties say…”Immediately now please!” And you would be right because then you would get to spend the day messing about with your brand new 35mm lens which is sooooooooooooo fantastically fabulous and wonderful. And you would be right.

Fall

Fall

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One day it was the ‘end of summer’ and then… The sun turned the frost to gold as the chill air bit our noses.  The ground crunched under our boots and the pigs stayed cosy in their straw beds rather than rushing straight outside. The golden light, the frosty earth, all adds up to my favourite season of all.  Autumn is when I really feel alive, full of beans and magic.  Plus I get to wear all my woollens, I…

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Awesomesauce

Awesomesauce

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There are lot of things I should be writing about at the moment, the garden, the birth of piglets (I will, I promise), homeschooling…the list goes on.  But what I find is on my mind, is just the people that surround me.  I am struck time and time again by how darn lucky I am in my life.  I don’t know if I’m just fortunate or if I just have some kind of awesomeness radar but I know a lot…

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In the garden – September

In the garden – September

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Setting aside the fact that it is September already (eeeeek!), a fact I am not yet ready to face, the garden produce is definitely playing a dominant role in my life right now.  The tomato harvest is ongoing and more abundant than we’ve every had.  Yes we planted over 127 plants (I stopped counting at that point) but still we have a LOT of tomatoes.  A. Lot. In order to deal with the crop properly I put school off until…

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