A Year in the Valley by Jackie French

Author:Jackie French [French, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Food & Drink, Food, Australia, Recipies
ISBN: 9780730450283
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1997-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

March 2

I looked up at the hill today. I seem to be doing that more often; perhaps because the autumn light is kinder. The dead wound across the ridge is healing. There are green leaves among the brown. How much is due to rain and how much to gentler weather I don’t know. I wish we could do more than just hope for more rain before winter. The fall last month was good – but not enough to fill the water table. We badly need more.

Pudge’s droppings are still soft and green though. She’s an excellent forager, vacuuming up the grass. I’ve never met such a dedicated eater. I’ve stopped giving her wombat biscuits, but she still gets her carrots. She’ll need the biscuits again soon though – there’s not much protein in winter grass – but at the moment she looks like she’d burst if you pricked her.

Watched a lyrebird playing bicycle on a giant yellow zucchini this morning, rolling it down the hill, probably just to see what was under it at first; and then it liked it and kept on rolling…

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