From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Rhubarb Cream and Blueberry Pavlova

January 27, 2010

The title above may not sound as though it would work on Pavlova and it may not look that appetising in the photo but let me assure you,  Rhubarb Cream and Blueberry Pavlova is absolutely delicious! My guests to whom I served this up last night agreed that it was very yummy and a success [...]

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Living on the Front Porch

January 23, 2010

Watching this video would be 10 minutes well spent:

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Damp and Dingy

January 23, 2010

Where has summer gone? We’ve barely seen the sun shining for more than 1/2 an hour every few days. It is very disappointing as our garden was doing so well and now with this cool wet weather nothing is really producing much and our tomatoes seem to have a disease which I hope is not [...]

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Carrot Harvest

January 9, 2010

Way back in September last year Grandpa (Clare in Gisborne) gave Amy a packet of seeds of baby carrots. They were in seed tape which is a light paper with the seeds attached so all you do is make a wee trench and line it with the seed tape and you end up with a [...]

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New 09/10 Vegetable Garden

January 5, 2010

With the shift to the new house this year, we had the opportunity to start a new vegetable garden. We have 3 sets of photos. The first ones were taken in about September, the next ones in December and the most recent just this morning. The one below is from December. You can see the [...]

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2010 = Twenty ten

January 4, 2010

Twenty ten, doesn’t that sound weird?  I am so used to saying two thousand and nine but have heard that twenty ten is the correct way to say it so I am practising.  I have noticed the news presenters have been saying twenty ten this year whereas in the past they were in the “two [...]

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