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Letter from Middelmost

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An introduction to Middelmost farm

A series of articles that will follow the fortunes, follies, and foibles of an ordinary person on an ordinary piece of dirt attempting to maintain an ordinary sort of existence within the boundaries of time, money, and skill.

28th May 2001

Well - this week was plain survival at Middelmost.

4th June 2001

It's amazing how things can change so quickly.

13th June 2001

Autumn is a time when I feel like a Smug-Little-Squirrel-Nutkin gathering up the summer and storing it away, but this year, things have gone wrong.

20th June 2001

The joys of living in the country.

27th June 2001

Well - the saga of Mrs. Pig's nose continues.

4th July 2001

Death is a strange thing and, to me, falls into three categories.

11th July 2001

At Middelmost the farming year ends at the Winter Solstice.

18th July 2001

Mrs Pig is very happy.

25th July 2001

One of my goody-baskets has come home.

1st August 2001

Did you rush out this morning and wish your horse a happy birthday?

8th August 2001

All you need is one warm day and you leap, cheerful and charged into the chores of spring!

15th August 2001

The laundry at Middelmost is a multi-talented room and, at the moment, it smells like the public bar of the local hotel.

22nd August 2001

Although the snow has fallen and the wind has howled

29th August 2001

The blacksmith reckons he hasn’t seen a horse with such big feet as Last Thyme in a very long while.

5th September 2001

Three weeks ago I was one of the last to leave Taihape before it was completely cut off by snow.

12th September 2001

Well - do I look stupid?

19th September 2001

On Monday I was SO CLOSE to giving Last Thyme away!!!

26th September 2001

To me, there is nothing more positive than the first whiff of boronia to say the season has definitely changed.

3rd October 2001

Well, it's all happening down on the farm.

10th October 2001

The local district newspaper said that this September was the driest since records began in 1908 - 7.8mm of rain when 82mm is the average.

17th October 2001

I think calves’ ears are a ‘seedy gauge’.

24th October 2001

With the warm rainy nights and the hot sunny days earlier this week at Middelmost, everything is growing with gay abandon.

31st October 2001

With the water tank overflowing this week, it has been time to catch up on spring cleaning - all of those jobs I couldn’t do in the September drought.

7th November 2001

September was the driest month, October was the warmest and November is definitely heading to be the wettest!!

14th November 2001

On Sunday Mrs. Pig delivered her babies.

21st November 2001

With a brave heart, I faced the girls on Thursday and said, "The ad is in the paper - you are for sale!"

28th November 2001

True to form Bossy Boots waited until the worst weather of the week to start labour and at twelve o’clock Wednesday night

5th December 2001

It is so annoying when something goes horrendously wrong and the only butt you can kick is your own.

12th December 2001

Some thieving sod ate my strawberries!!