Posted in Life in South Africa, Writing on Thursday, 31 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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I start my new blog this month. At the beginning, I am still posting on Google’s Blogger, but then a dear friend recommends that I give WordPress a try. I do, and am pleased, so I migrate across. Fortunately, WordPress allows me to import all my posts on [...]
Posted in Electricity crisis, Life in South Africa, News, Politics on Thursday, 31 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was listening to a local talk-radio programme on CapeTalk this morning on my way to work.
Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica gave an enlightening speech in Parliament yesterday, during a special joint parliamentary sitting, in which she urged all people in South Africa:
“Go to sleep earlier so that you can grow and be cleverer. [...]
Posted in Electricity crisis, Life in South Africa, News, Politics on Thursday, 31 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
South Africa has a very serious shortage of electricity.
In fact, it is so serious at the moment that we have dramatically reduced (halted?) our electricity exports to our neighbouring countries, with whom we have long-term contracts. Family in Namibia, for instance, tell us that they now have fairly regular ‘load shedding’ every day – from [...]
Posted in Home, Sweet Home, Nature, Photos, Tuffy, our Cat on Tuesday, 29 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our neighbours’ cat has lived with us (officially – i.e. we feed and water her and take her to the vet for her shots) since sometime in 2005. We’ve seen her do some pretty weird things in the last few years, but she still continues to surprise us.
Tonight, she managed to open one of the [...]
Posted in Home, Sweet Home, Life in South Africa, Nature on Monday, 28 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As wannabe responsible pool owners, we’ve been thinking for a while how we can reduce our water consumption by re-using the water from backwashing our pool.
Not that we backwash our pool more than once a week or once every 2 weeks, but:
(a) the lawn doesn’t really enjoy drowning in a mixture of chlorine and salt [...]
Posted in Around the Neighbourhood, Home, Sweet Home, Nature, Photos on Sunday, 27 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometime in 2001 or 2002, while I was still living in the City Bowl, Liezl and Volker gave me a couple of avocadoes from Liezl’s parents’ avocado tree. I kept the pips and tried to get them to grow. Only one survived.
When Richard and I moved in together at the end of 2002, “Avi” [...]
Posted in Home, Sweet Home, Nature, Photos, Tuffy, our Cat on Monday, 21 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our cat sleeps in soooo many different places: on a chair in the garage, in a cardboard box on a shelf, on the warm bonnet of my car, in a corner of the sofa, in a far-too-small basket laid out with soft towels, on a sheepskin ‘blanket’, underneath the computer desk, on assorted chairs in [...]
Posted in Electricity crisis, Home, Sweet Home, Life in South Africa on Wednesday, 16 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What with all the ‘load shedding’ going on and the ‘lack of capacity’, Eskom is now demanding of all South Africans that we should reduce electricity consumption and investigate alternative sources of energy.
Why they don’t seem to be researching these, is a mystery. (I suppose it’s the age-old response of incompetent people – passing the [...]
Posted in Home, Sweet Home, Nature, Photos, Tuffy, our Cat on Friday, 11 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having evicted me in the nicest possible and inimitably subtle feline way from my sunbathing spot, and now curled up on my fluffy, fresh-smelling towel on the slightly damp grass, Tuffy is a contented cat indeed.
It’s hard not to adore her for all her idiosyncrasies…
