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Here "down under" in Australia, Spring is well on it's way. To farewell Winter and having the very last of my dad's home-grown pumpkins waiting to be used, I decided to whip up a soup for lunch today. Somehow pumpkin soup always makes me feel good on the inside. As well as pumpkin, I  added some of my other favourite things. I'm having a current love affair with fennel (growing madly in my garden right now) so that's definitely going in. And my favourite…