Number 5 25 November 2022

My sharpened knife, stone and sliced chillies with olive oilToday I am cooking ox tongue. It is so exciting to cook again; I started cooking round about 2015 and then about 18 months ago I more or less stopped. I really don’t have a specific reason except to say that we were in the process of selling our home where we lived for almost 41 years and I got somewhat ill as well. I had to concentrate on the logistics of re-potting plants to take with,...

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Number 4 24 November 2022

 Julie and JuliaJulie and Julia – the movie about Julia Child and Julie who was inspired by Julia. Oh, my word! I get carried away. I should start at the beginning. And the beginning is Number One. I mentioned Julie and Julia right at the start. Some of you might be familiar with this movie; some not. I was not familiar with this at all. I was only aware of Julia’s cookbook; have seen an original at a restaurant in Morningside, Sandton. And...

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Number three 23.11.2022

 My doodles - this is the doodle that created havoc in my friends mind about my sanity!!!!!!I started attending art classes and it is great fun – at the moment I am the grandpa and only male amongst a couple of ladies. They are noisy, fun to look at, and always discussing things at the top of their voices; this is not my normal scene. They are not shy to speak their minds. And they become quite animated; ask them what their favourite movies...

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Number two 22.11.2022

What is his story? Help him to understandStones, wood, Petria, colour, texture and ... Had my early morning walk and pottered around my land art-doodles on the pavement [side-walk]. My one friend, I met him at genealogy, referred to this pottering around as land art-doodles and I like it. It encapsulates the gist of it. I cannot go into the wild like Strijdom Van Der Merwe  or Andrew Goldsworthy and create their incredible ephemeral...

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Blue South African Skies in Franschhoek, Western CapeNumber One. 21 November 2022 Try to write every day for 31 days. About what? Does it matter? Start writing. Turn up and the teacher will be there waiting for you! I do go to my office every day and sit an work. That is no problem to me. But to write something every day for the blog - that is a huge challenge and I am willing to take it on for at least 31 days. Wish me good luck. Even if...

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God is making something new: a second day

God is making something new:  a second day Two poppies floweringThe one gentleman posted a photograph of his poppies – there is a second flower that opened up today. And he is so thankful for that. Brilliant colours – the best from His palette for us to enjoy. Exuberant. Over the top. Let us enjoy it. Another lady posted her flowers that she is so grateful for. And she says that nature exploded in colour and aromas. We are at the...

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God is making something new - for us humans and plants

 Look at my brunsvigia radulosa sprouting after winter - those blue dots are indicating some of itGod is maming something new – and it has already begun; and it is, so to say, all about us humans and nature. The source for this amazing news is in the Book of Isaiah chapter 43. The English version reads: Verses 18 – 19: [English Standard Version]: “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing:...

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