Baking

I love summertime for the abundance of fresh fruit available to us.  My latest "batch" from the kitchen is a fresh plum tart...

Cheetah doesn't like baked fruit with anything, and he doesn't yet know what he's missing... hmmmm.

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Hermanus

Summer holidays are incomplete without some time spent in Hermanus.......

Whale watching (if they're still around), cray-fishing, swimming, shopping, eating, playing and being lazy is what we do....

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Gardening mystery

Towards the end of winter I was very excited to get some spring and summer flowering annual seeds in the ground; and that is just what I did. With seed bombs and direct sowing into the soil. Several packets of seeds later, I decided to discard the empty packets and not make a note of what went in where. Hence my "problem" to identify this mysterious, monstrous plant in the garden. 

It is now about chest height and still going strong. Looks like a flower is about to unfold itself and I'm rather excited to see what it will look like. Perhaps then I'll be able to tell what it is. It might be a good idea to keep a gardening journal to record everything I do, as I have a habit of buying seeds and throwing them around the garden at random. Bouh!  I'll keep you posted!

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Directions!

pic from here 

I saw these very cute signs on Pinterest here and since I've decided that we'll be  having a playful and fun garden and outdoor space this summer, I decided to make some signs of my own.

So, from some old, odd pieces of wood that had been squirrelled away (by yours truly) and this....

...........to this!

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