These late autumn days and nights are decidedly chilly, and soon, perhaps even tonight, we’ll make our first indoor fire of the year. The garden
Vegetable meanderings
The sign at the side of the dirt road should be warning enough: seedlings are sold here “wholesale to farmers”. But I want seedlings badly
Everyday magic
Girl fairy helper is blowing out the candles on her birthday cake – she is four – when she spots him. “Buck,” she says.
On paper
Usually, we buy three newspapers a week: the Mail & Guardian on Friday, the local Daily Dispatch on Saturday, and the Sunday Times on, well,
Hot and hotter
On weekends, V likes to get busy in the kitchen. It’s his “down-time”, he says. He picks whatever chillis he can find in the garden
Easter bounty
Easter eggs, Swiss chocolate and a house (and garden) oozing with family from all over the place are not the only joys at this time
Things that slither
It’s as I am reaching for the chives that I detect, out of the corner of my eye, a slight movement on the fence
Familiar comfort
The milkwood tree has been a constant in my life for as long as I remember. The trees grow prolifically in the coastal dune forests
Sun is shining
Today, the sun made a brief appearance before the rain came down again. But I picked some flowers – strelitzia and other pretty things –
Inside the storm
Living here, on the south-eastern edge of South Africa, we experience some really wild weather. I once watched a black thing ooze over the sea