Birds, bees and frog spawn
GenevaLunch News An exceptionally long winter, with the garden buried for five months under nearly a metre of snow, has finally come to an end, and the garden has emerged. Unscathed – well, not quite....
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GenevaLunch News We bought a piece of property a few years ago that had two apple trees, 75 and 100 years old at the time. The younger gave Canadas, good for pies, for two years, then began to die and...
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GenevaLunch News Two weeks of very unusually warm weather and, even in the mountains, we’re tempted to call it spring. My elderly neighbour, who has spent her life here and who remembers the weather...
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GenevaLunch News The weed-pulling job is getting away from me, and I can almost hear them laughing while I stand by, helpless, with two broken toes. The doctor told me to avoid steps and slopes for two...
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