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Vom Baby zum Abendessen
... mithelfen, weil ich alle Hände voll zu tun habe mit Marktvorbereitungen. Nach und nach holen die Männer die Hühner aus dem Stall und dann kommen sie kopfüber in einen Trichter, den an deinem Baum befestigt ist. Und dann geht es ganz schnell. Der Kopf wird abgeschnitten und das Huhn ist tot. Es zappelt zwar noch kräftig, aber spürt hoffentlich nichts mehr. Danach hängen die Hühner ein wenig aus, bevor sie dann in fast kochendes Wasser gesteckt werden, damit ...
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
... from raking on my hands I was getting ready for my imminent return to rowing and the inevitable calloused hands.
To continue the water theme, I watched Whale Rider, brilliant not only because it was set in my one of my favourite countries, and of course current holders of the Rugby World Cup, New Zealand, but because it’s about a girl being refused teaching because she is a girl, of course proving any doubting Thomases wrong in the end by triumphing over adversity. ...
Do Country Folk Not Watch Horror Movies?
... meant it wasn’t a solid six and a half hours on the job; my first distraction job was fixing the fence Beautiful had torn off last night. Cameron and Emily had done the hard work of reattaching the fence, but my job was to re-tag the lines and put on new, or recovered from the thorn-covered bushes, insulators along the two-hundred-feet of line.
After walking along the line and using up both rolls of tape I retreated to my raking task, getting so caught ...
Dennis, The Fire Truck Or The Fire-Fighter?
... for Emily to get rid of the little blighter, she told me I was a great Wwoofer as I’d managed to become part of the environment, knowing what to do when things like that happened, which was so nice of her say. It’s a shame I’m only here for a week, but maybe I can come back again; I was especially glad to hear her say that after I forgot to give Willa her pills yesterday, trod on her garlic plants on my first day, and stalled her car twice. ...
The Final Farm
... this time to see the comedy 'What’s Your Number?’ An amusing film, a good job considering it’s a comedy, and one that pushed the idea of doing what you love rather than what pays the bills, which I thought was great to see just before I go home and decide what I’m going to do with the next year of my life; to think about the rest of my life is far too daunting, and besides, who knows where I’ll be this time next year, let alone in twenty. ...


