{"id":5939,"date":"2019-08-30T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2019-08-27T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:15:00","slug":"picture-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/picture-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve subjected you to a few rather longwinded blog posts<\/a> recently. So here, by way of a palate cleanser, is a pictorial essay I’m calling ‘The Farmlet in Winter’.<\/p>\n

\"Nell<\/a>

Nell covered in mud, and hoping earnestly for food. Fig and Nell<\/a>\u00a0will sit on command if you have carrots.
It’s a good trick, and one which never fails to impress visitors.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Giselle<\/a>

Giselle<\/a>, who has become a bit of a tyrant in the chicken house, shows us her imperious look.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pony<\/a>

Summer’s<\/a> adorable velvety-soft nose.
Summer also hopes earnestly for carrots, she does not, however, sit on command.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pony<\/a>

What she does like to do in winter is to go hooning around the paddock practicing her\u00a0sliding-stops<\/a>.
Because *horse*!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bonnie<\/a>

Bonnie<\/a> takes every possible opportunity to eat, insisting she is at imminent risk of starvation <rotfl>.
Here she is\u00a0grabbing a few bites of greenery during a winter walk in Seven Acre Wood.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rhubarb<\/a>

In the vegetable garden<\/a>\u00a0there’s a forest of rhubarb starting up.
I planted a few extras last year because I’ve taken a liking to stewed rhubarb with my AntiGene granola<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Munstead<\/a>

Meanwhile the Munstead Wood rose popped out a surprise midwinter bloom in the\u00a0English Garden<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tete<\/a>

And here are the miniature T\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate daffodils just in time for the change of season.
Why is it that I find\u00a0tiny things<\/a> so cute?<\/p><\/div>\n

Well that was winter. I have a couple more muddy tales to tell you, and then we’ll be romping into spring!\u00a0I’m more than ready to leap into a season of baby lambs<\/a> (due any day now), short but\u00a0‘refreshing’ swims<\/a>, and sowing seeds for summer vegetables<\/a>. Perhaps Deborah and I might even making a start on rehabilitating that\u00a0ramshackle old greenhouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What do you most look forward to doing this spring?<\/p>\n

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I’ve subjected you to a few rather longwinded blog posts recently. So here, by way of a palate cleanser, is a pictorial essay I’m calling ‘The Farmlet in Winter’. Well that was winter. I have a couple more muddy tales… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,50,22,69,68,41,3,19,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exmoor-pony","category-farm-life","category-guinea-fowl","category-kunekunes","category-pigs","category-plant-life","category-ponies","category-vegetable-garden","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6396,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/6396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}