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From: "Joan Reichardt" <>
Subject: New peas and a new book!
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:54:50 -0700


I have just come in from sitting on my deck shelling freshly picked peas which I will enjoy with my evening meal - as well as new potatoes - both with lots of mint!
I had my first garden in 1947. We had moved into the upstairs of a Wartime house and were given half the back garden - to my great joy! Of course, everything had to be done by hand, my husband dug and we both raked and levelled the hard and stony clay. I planted a pocket handkerchief patch of grass, with surrounding flower beds, and the rest was for vegetables. Most of the neighbours had grow up on the farm and found my miniature plot highly amusing! they were used to growing potatoes by the acre and rows of peas half a mile long. I tried to grow runner beans and that was the first time I saw a humming bird, when they came to the scarlet flowers. I cut my 'lawn' with a pair of shears and watered with a watering can. Although I have much more available space, and know how to manage a big garden, I am back to the mini - at least as far as the veg are concerned, but I love, most of all, my fresh scarlet runners, which you cannot buy, as far as I know. And with the wet we!
ather we have had I should have a good crop!
I just heard of a new book called 'The Last Of the Warbrides" by Jaqueline Dahm, 6265 Chukar Road, Vernon, BC V1H 1M8 and published by Trafford Publishing, 2333 Government st. Victoria, V5T 4P4 phone # 1 888 232 4444. It costs $29.95 plus shipping costs. I haven't ordered it as yet, but will suggest to one of my Victoria family that this would be a nice birthday or Christmas present. Apparently the writer came from London and ended up living in a chicken coop on a farm in Alberta!
I have been in touch with family in the London area and they are all well In one case had been up to the theatre the day before. They are telling me they wish their politicians had had the sense to stay out of it as ours did.
Joan Reichardt


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