Category Archives: Gardens

Pooling Resources

Posted on September 15, 2019 by colonialist

Can you believe it; what the heck? Again the internet in check; No sign of it when I awoke, I don’t regard it as a joke! Late afternoon with a return, I don’t want midnight oil to burn, So yet … Continue reading →

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Bunny Chow or Chow with Bunnies

Posted on September 1, 2019 by colonialist

On each first, I have these habits To go seeking out some RABBITS! These came, if you want to know, From a place called Illovo, Where we went, after my treat Served for breakfast, was quite neat; This time all … Continue reading →

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Fursday and Fryday Fingies

Posted on August 23, 2019 by colonialist

Free of medical appointments today and yesterday, I had some time and opportunity to do a bit of pottering. There was a dentist appointment for J in the afternoon, but he took a quick look and said nothing needed doing, … Continue reading →

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No Dis-Appointment; More Raidy-Ho; Queen Dethroned.

Posted on August 13, 2019 by colonialist

Today another ‘-ologist’ was added to the score, This one an ‘uncle-ogist’* (raid he ate shin) you see, My count on tests is, yet again, result not to deplore — He said that I am doing well to quite a … Continue reading →

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Exclusive Meeting With Royalty

Posted on August 5, 2019 by colonialist

  Yesterday we went for lunch to the ever-delightful Makaranga in Kloof. There the grandkids were the only ones to dare the distinctly chilly pool. I feel sure that if they found a pool in the Antarctic, they would go … Continue reading →

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Going at Unsteady Gates

Posted on August 4, 2019 by colonialist

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Hop and Skip!

Posted on August 2, 2019 by colonialist

              For rubble and for refuse we Now have, and give, a skip For it is being gathered, see, To take it to the tip! And Gazu, on his day with us Already piled … Continue reading →

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Boring but Really Awful Subject.

Posted on July 27, 2019 by colonialist

Today we attended a talk given by Johan Bodenstein, an esteemed local environmentalist, on the menace increasingly posed by the Polyphagus Shot Hole Borer Beetle. It is rampant in Johannesburg, which may soon cease being the biggest urban forest in … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Current Affairs, Durban and Coast Horticultural Society, Gardens, Horticulture, Nature, Personal Journal | Tagged , , , | 15 Comments

Fuf-fuf-fuf Free Zing Party and Talk

Posted on July 20, 2019 by colonialist

After two of the most delightful days imaginable, weather wise, things turned mean today just because we had two outdoor events following one after the other. In the morning we were up early to an overcast day with a gale … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Books, Durban and Coast Horticultural Society, Gardens, Grandchildren, Horticulture, Personal Journal, Publishing, Writing | Tagged , , , , | 10 Comments

How on Earth?

Posted on July 8, 2019 by colonialist

How is it from holes there can come A pile of earth, the total sum Amounts to much more Than the total score Of what they can hold? It is dumb! The pile that’s in storage now seen Just matches … Continue reading →

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