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    Give peace a chance

    Oct 10, 2018 4 minutes

    JACKIE FRENCH is the author of The Chook Book (Aird Books). Her oldest chook, Gertie, is now 17. Although Gertie’s sisters have all long since fallen off the perch, Gertie still lays extremely large brown eggs most days of the year. Get in touch with Jackie via facebook.com/authorjackiefrench, twitter.com/jackie_french_ and instagram.com/jackie_french_.

    Roses have always been symbols of love, seduction and sensuality. Cleopatra greeted Mark Antony on a carpet of rose petals so thick you couldn’t see the ground and had the sails of her barge soaked in essence of roses. Rich Ancient Romans even swam in pools of rosewater.

    In another tale of roses and and that every year on the anniversary of her death roses be scattered on her grave.

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