The gooseberry bush is prolific this year and the grenadilla has trailed into the dogplum tree and has "shed" a lovely fruit on nearly a daily basis for a month...
Here is the proof!
Thursday 17 July 2014
Time to harvest...
The garden is not only about crazy objects and succulents... I am harvesting the most delicious rocket leaves for salads and a variety of herbs for flavour and garnishes.
The gooseberry bush is prolific this year and the grenadilla has trailed into the dogplum tree and has "shed" a lovely fruit on nearly a daily basis for a month...
Here is the proof!
Gooseberries, grenadillas and ONE lonely butternut grown from what I thought was a pumpkin seed.
The gooseberry bush is prolific this year and the grenadilla has trailed into the dogplum tree and has "shed" a lovely fruit on nearly a daily basis for a month...
Here is the proof!
Saturday 5 July 2014
Couchsurfer from Serbia
Towards the end of May I started corresponding with Stefan Savic who requested a bed for two nights in Grahamstown. When I saw that he would be arriving after sunset / early evening in June, I offered him a bed in PE for one night so that he could wait for his girlfriend who would be arriving the following evening.
After a couple of internet conversations, Stefan did not feel like a stranger any more. This your man was coming to Rhodes University to start his PhD in Linguistincs on a South African scholarship His girlfriend, a Polish concert pianist, is to perform at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival during the next few days.
I fetched Stefan at the airport and met a very positive young man... At home he met Eon and Kia and our friend Lara. Supper was vegetable soup and venison-filled pancakes served with kiwi jam. His first time to taste "wild" meat at 33 degrees South!
Stefan on the Pier
While waiting for Joanna's flight, Stefan helped us in the garden, "touched" the ocean when I took him to Summerstrand and the Humewood Pier, and visited my friend Gerda Coetzee Offerman's new eco-house. I took him to Pick 'n Pay to see what a SA supermarket looked like and he bought us a chicken for that night's supper. Then we went to sit on the deck at Something Good for coffee, also paid by him.
Stefan is a polyglot... Not only did he study in his own county, but also in Norway and Germany and has a command of many Slavic languages. When Eon's friend Ryan visited, he got an idea of all the click sounds of Xhosa. His sister, an architect, worked in Holland for some thime and when he visited her there, learnt some Dutch so he was able to adapt to Afrikaans with dankie, goeie more etc.
I taught him one, yes only one, strong word and that was KAK... and a short sentence, Jy praat kak and told him when to use it. So when Pieter Verwey's Grahamstown shuttle came to fetch them at the airport, Pieter said, "you can be fortunate that you landed with an "old lady" otherwise you would have learnt many swearwords." Stefan looked him in the eye and answered: "Jy praat kak."
Trudie was an AMAZING host who took care of me the first 24 hours I spent
in South Africa, more precisely in Port Elizabeth. She picked me up from
the airport and was a very generous host who showed me around Port
Elizabeth. I also met her children and their friends who I very much
enjoyed talking to. I really felt like home in Trudie's house - a
beautifully decorated place! I am looking forward to meeting you soon
again!
After a couple of internet conversations, Stefan did not feel like a stranger any more. This your man was coming to Rhodes University to start his PhD in Linguistincs on a South African scholarship His girlfriend, a Polish concert pianist, is to perform at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival during the next few days.
I fetched Stefan at the airport and met a very positive young man... At home he met Eon and Kia and our friend Lara. Supper was vegetable soup and venison-filled pancakes served with kiwi jam. His first time to taste "wild" meat at 33 degrees South!
While waiting for Joanna's flight, Stefan helped us in the garden, "touched" the ocean when I took him to Summerstrand and the Humewood Pier, and visited my friend Gerda Coetzee Offerman's new eco-house. I took him to Pick 'n Pay to see what a SA supermarket looked like and he bought us a chicken for that night's supper. Then we went to sit on the deck at Something Good for coffee, also paid by him.
Stefan is a polyglot... Not only did he study in his own county, but also in Norway and Germany and has a command of many Slavic languages. When Eon's friend Ryan visited, he got an idea of all the click sounds of Xhosa. His sister, an architect, worked in Holland for some thime and when he visited her there, learnt some Dutch so he was able to adapt to Afrikaans with dankie, goeie more etc.
I taught him one, yes only one, strong word and that was KAK... and a short sentence, Jy praat kak and told him when to use it. So when Pieter Verwey's Grahamstown shuttle came to fetch them at the airport, Pieter said, "you can be fortunate that you landed with an "old lady" otherwise you would have learnt many swearwords." Stefan looked him in the eye and answered: "Jy praat kak."
Joanna arrived with a very big suitcase!
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Stefan Savić has REQUESTED a friend link to you and has written the
following reference about you on your profile: Trudie was an AMAZING host who took care of me the first 24 hours I spent
in South Africa, more precisely in Port Elizabeth. She picked me up from
the airport and was a very generous host who showed me around Port
Elizabeth. I also met her children and their friends who I very much
enjoyed talking to. I really felt like home in Trudie's house - a
beautifully decorated place! I am looking forward to meeting you soon
again!
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