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Ganesh’s Garden
On the public holiday Norm and I made a lot of progress on our succulent garden. We moved the Ganesh statue my kids had given me out there as the centre piece. He looks so lovely in the sun. We moved a lot of my existing pots from the patio and from other areas in…
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Museums, Monkeys & Margaritas
Everyone needs a break from their reality, especially at this time when most of us are isolating and staying at home in our bubbles. Norm and I loved our European weekends away when we lived in the UK. We would often book a last minute cheap flight and just take off on a whim. We…
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Burning History
Norman often tells me I am being paranoid and that I am imagining machinations where none exist. However most of the time I am proven to be right. (Aren’t wives always right even when we aren’t?) When the US capitol was attacked I said that day from the very beginning that it was coordinated and…
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The Angst of a Crone
Even while in the midst of a very publicised trial about the murder of George Floyd by cops, the murders of black men by police in America continues. This week we watched a young man be shot ‘by mistake’ by a policewoman. On April 11, 2021, Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot…
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Three Butterflies
I’ve always felt that I receive communications from my grandmother via things with wings. This week I had three unusual interactions with butterflies. On Thursday I was working at my desk and a butterfly flew into the lounge and hovered by my desk then turned and flew back out. When I was telling Norman this…
Kitten in the City
Neurodiverse Georgia Peach transplanted to Cape Town, the most beautiful city in the world
Kitten in the City 