September Pears
Tree
It is Pear time in the Quimper Household…we have Pears in the tree (more…)
Crock Lid
No Lid
The Quimper Hittys have a gorgeous salt-glazed crock in their kitchen, but Jane wished that it had a lid to keep the contents dry and safe from larder beetles. (more…)
Tansy scares a crow
Welcome back
Tansy returned to the Hitty cupboard after her Archaeological adventure and found that a few chores had piled up in her absence…
Tansy Listens
Scrape
On a dig in the forest it is worth paying attention to the sounds. Tansy listened to a lot of scraping, sifting, murmuring and exclaiming…
Tansy’s Erratic
Shore Erratic
Large boulders sprinkled about the landscape were dropped there by glaciers tens of thousands of years ago. They are known as Glacial Erratics and are all over the place – this one is on the shore…
Tansy Camps
Beach Morning
Tansy and her Archaeologist companions traveled to Yeatman Bay and stayed there for this phase of the project.
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Tansy Digs
Screen
Tansy is a very experienced archaeologist, and spent a good chunk of her summer on an archaeological project with her favourite photographer. She demonstrated excellent knowledge and ability of the tools and techniques of the job. Here she is sitting in the quarter-inch mesh screen prior to sifting the backdirt…
Let them eat Pie!
Big Tarte
The first apple pie of the season is on the table – Amelia’s Gravensteins have been turned into Tarte Tatin… (more…)
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