NUMBER TWELVE 2.12.2022

 Culinary apple We are on our way to Culinary Equipment Company. It is a place to wander through, to admire and to have something to eat. Take your time and enjoy the second-hand cook books, the cooking equipment; just feel the passion of the owner not only for food, but for the interior of his emporium! It is not a business. It is an emporium. Yes, get something to eat. The menu is something else. And the food is specially prepared for each...

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Number Eleven 2 December 2022

Art class: my cat [just a sketch because I don't have a cat]I am guilty! I didn't publish my daily write up! Yet, I will tell you what happened yesterday.My spoon - the fruit of yesterday's classA short resume about yesterday: High speed car chase late at night [that stands out for the day] Art class – gaiety and laughter Serious discussions about Princess Diana. Butter Beans from Malawi Groundnuts from Malawi Friends for coffee and...

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Number ten 30.11.2022

Grahamstown Cathedral. I took this photo on 25 March 2022 This is the last day of November 2022 and the start of the last month of 2022.   New beginnings face me every moment and I want to live until I die and I don’t want to die prematurely. Unfortunately, there are lots of people who just exist and not live. No, I don’t want to climb Mount Everest. I don’t have ambitions to out do Pablo Picasso or Henry Matisse or Damien Hirst. I don’t even...

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Number nine 29.11.2022

 Number nine 29.11.2022 The plants, or if you will, the seedlings in my maternity ward are doing well. Watermelon seedlings fromJeffreys Bay, Western Cape My friend in Jeffreys Bay, Western Cape gave me four watermelon pips to plant and two sprouted. Now my waiting game started; waiting for it to give me watermelons. During 2020 I participated in a seed-swop and got a fair number of seeds inter alia scarlet runner beans [8x]. I have three...

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Number 8 28.11.2022

The blue skies of Franschhoek, Western CapeWhat a lovely sunshine day we have in Rivonia, Johannesburg, South Africa. My plants are growing; and I still have seeds to attend to. A friend’s mother came from India to visit and she brought me some seeds as a gift. It is time for me to get on and get in the soil. And maybe I will be able to write about it later on. Yesterday I looked at my tender plants that are barely breaking soil; I wonder how on...

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Number 7 27.11.2022

Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut! I referred to him in Number 1 on 21 November 2022. And now I want to pursue his story further. Back to Kurt. I just read his story on Wikipedia and have some sympathy for the man. And yet, even with his background he kept at it and that is writing. That is what he could do best. I downloaded a write up of his, telling us how shy and embarrassed he was “not being good at any of his myriad of hobbies.”...

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Number 6 26.11.2022

The book cover. My ox-tongue is cooked. And it is delicious. It was the first recipe that I tried out of Marlene Van Der Westhuizen’s BORD [that is PLATE in my home language, Afrikaans]. I can’t even remember when last I cooked it. In legal jargon I might say it is since time immemorial – can’t even remember! Please have a look at her website - it is really something special. I got stuck with the sauce I had to cook – I did not have all...

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