I have been adding some new words and ideas to my vocabulary and thought I'd share them with you.
heaps: the word used for lots, many, a whole bunch, often, all the time, or very. For example: There are heaps of trees on the south island. Or: I've had heaps of hokey pokey ice cream.
smallies: underwear.
longs: pants. And by pants, I mean longs, or long pieces of fabric that we use to cover our legs. Like jeans.
keen: excited, sympathetic towards, a positive inclination. Example: Are you keen to go to the beach today?
clucky: a hen that has the tendency to brood, or has motherly instincts. Cluckies make a strange sound like a cat purring and must be quarantined for a few days before it can exist in normal free-range chicken life. So for all you YCCers out there, Clucky is a brooding hen.
Zed: the word used for the letter Z.
Afters: dessert.
Tea: dinner. Or a hot drink with sugar and milk.
Permaculture: The term coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison and David Homgren. They define it as: "...the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability and risilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way."
These are some the words I've been learning. I'll be sure to keep you updated with more words to add to your vocabury. Meanwhile, I am still at the kingfisher farm milking cows, collecting eggs (it's like easter every day!), and feeding pigs. I watched other chickens eat a dead chicken and they love eating their own eggs. Sick.
