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Going organic with the Ethical Co-op

I’d heard about the Ethical Co-op a couple of years ago, and had thought their idea, of acting as an intermediary between small-scale local farmers and residents who are looking for organic and biodynamic produce, was absolutely brilliant. This week, I took the plunge and placed my first order with them.

Friday, 8 November 2013 in Home and Garden, Humour, In the kitchen, Tuffy, our Cat.

Admiring the early morning flowers

Admiring the early morning flowers in our garden: A photo gallery.

Tuesday, 5 March 2013 in Flowers, Home and Garden, Tuffy, our Cat.

Milk and kibbles for a fluffy feline

Was that a cat sitting on our garden bench? Yes, indeed. It was a tiny little ginger cat. Its eyes were blissfully closed, as it contentedly absorbed the warmth of the mid-morning sun.

Friday, 25 January 2013 in Home and Garden, Tuffy, our Cat.

In which Tuffy-Cat claims my chair as her own

I was peacefully working away on the computer this morning, when Tuffy-Cat marched into the office, sat down next to my chair, and glared up at me. “MEOW!” she declared. If you own – or rather, are in service to – a cat, you’ll know what an effect such an evident feline reprimand can have.…

Thursday, 20 September 2012 in Home and Garden, Tuffy, our Cat.

Tuffy-Cat helps us to paint the ceilings: A little slideshow

Last weekend, we finally tackled the painting job we had been procrastinating over for months, if not years: our ceilings. When we moved into our house some 7-8 years ago, I had (very foolishly, in hindsight) insisted on using eco-friendly paint. Although I concede that it was a pleasure to paint with – even though…

Friday, 14 September 2012 in Home and Garden, Tuffy, our Cat.

A sunny spot and a good ol’ adventure book

If you ask my family, they will confirm that I was a “Leseratte” (a German word translated directly as ‘reading rat’, but meaning the equivalent of ‘bookworm’, which sounds much better) when I was little. I always had my nose buried in a book, or two, or more. This hasn’t changed much, although nowadays it…

Monday, 10 September 2012 in Home and Garden, Tuffy, our Cat.

Winter storms and cosy fires: A little slideshow

And for those who have problems seeing the slideshows, here is a gallery too:

Monday, 10 September 2012 in Home and Garden, Tuffy, our Cat.

Hitting the Pause Button for a brief Kitty Interlude

After last week’s whirlwind program of activities and outings with mom-in-law, it was back to work for me today. Some editing and proofreading work had been pushed aside for a week, and now it was clamouring for attention. As you can imagine, it was tricky to concentrate, as my head was all over the place,…

Monday, 28 February 2011 in Home and Garden, Life in South Africa, Tuffy, our Cat.

Tuffy-cat and the open window

When my blogfriend Helen over at Walk the Cape left such a sweet comment requesting more posts about Tuffy, I proudly informed our kitty-cat that she had at least one other fan in the world (other than hubby and me, of course).

Wednesday, 9 February 2011 in Home and Garden, Life in South Africa, Tuffy, our Cat.

Tuffy-Cat and the Butterfly

Thud. Mreow! Thumpity-thumpity-hoppity-thunk. Mreow! Thuddity-thud. Mreeerreeow!! It took a while for these odd sounds from the lounge to be recognised by my brain. I’d been completely focused on finishing an editing job for a client, and had as usual lost track of time and filtered out the rest of reality, as happens when one sits…

Thursday, 18 November 2010 in Home and Garden, Life in South Africa, Tuffy, our Cat.

Awful news

We met our nextdoor neighbours at the local shops this evening, and they shared some awful news with us: Their new cat Tugger, the gorgeous, playful, adventure-seeking ginger cat that visited us last Sunday (see here), was knocked down by a fast-driving car in the road, just outside their house, during the night from Sunday…

Monday, 9 August 2010 in Around the Neighbourhood, Home and Garden, Life in South Africa, Tuffy, our Cat.

Tuffy meets Tugger

Our neighbours (Tuffy’s previous parents) have just adopted another cat from the local SPCA. It’s a young ginger cat, a neutered male with the cute name of Rum Tum Tugger, after the musical Cats. As there are two other cats in their household, Tugger clearly thought that it was time to investigate our yard, in…

Monday, 2 August 2010 in Home and Garden, Life in South Africa, Tuffy, our Cat.

Our tree has been pruned again

We have a large and well-established Rhus tree in our back garden. Since we moved in a couple of years ago, we’ve had it pruned twice already. Each time, we feared that the pruning had been so severe that our poor tree would take years to recover. And each time, it astounded us by sending…

Monday, 2 August 2010 in Flowers, Home and Garden, Tuffy, our Cat.

Brrr… my arm has turned to ice!

Tuffy-Cat and I have been hibernating in the office all morning, the two oil heaters working hard to transform it from a chilly damp space into a toasty warm one. While I am beavering away at the computer, multi-tasking as usual, the Fluff-ball is, as usual for her, fast asleep. (Never mind ‘cat-naps’. What a…

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 in Home and Garden, Life in South Africa, Tuffy, our Cat.

Goodbye, my dearest childhood playmates

My heart is rather heavy today. You may remember that, back in April, I did some serious clutter-clearing and autumn-cleaning, giving away clothes I wasn’t wearing any longer, books I had read in the past and didn’t want to read again, and assorted things we had accumulated over the years but hadn’t used in ages.…

Thursday, 8 July 2010 in Home and Garden, Life in South Africa, Tuffy, our Cat.

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