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Succulents and Celebrations
After all of the sad and unhappy things that happened last week, the week ended on a much more positive note. Last Saturday Norm and I decided to go to Dario’s, our fave burger place in Hout Bay for lunch. The sun had finally made an appearance but it was still rather chilly. The patio…
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The Fickle Mistress
Cape Town, the Mother City, is such a fickle mistress. Just when you think the weather is cooling off and winter is finally rolling in, we then get a few days of incredibly hot weather, then with no warning at all it turns so cold we have to light the fire. Last weekend was incredibly…
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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…
Kitten in the City
Neurodiverse Georgia Peach transplanted to Cape Town, the most beautiful city in the world
