The day of the local municipal elections – Wednesday, 18 May 2011 – was declared a public holiday. Having done our civic duty even before breakfast by having our thumbnails marked with ultraviolet ink (to prevent double-voting) and casting our ballots at the local town hall, we took advantage of the fabulous weather to head…
During mom-in-law’s recent whirlwind visit to Cape Town, we took her all over the Cape Peninsula. One of the destinations on our list was the newly opened Green Point Urban Park. We’d visited here for a brief walkabout in April last year, during the run-up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, when the work on…
My goodness, what a whirlwind of a week this has been! We picked up mom-in-law Lissi (visiting us from Windhoek, Namibia) from Cape Town International Airport last Saturday, and spent a leisurely afternoon at home, giving her some time to relax before launching into a jam-packed program of activities.
Friends of ours who live in Green Point invited us for an impromptu Good Friday lunch at their new apartment. From their balcony, we had a lovely view of the new stadium – I still tend to call it the Green Point stadium, because it’s more or less in the same place as the old…
Grains of Sand 