With the national elections coming up in April, it seems South African politicians are taking their mud-slinging out of the Houses of Parliament and into the Company Gardens next door. Ex-pres Thabo Mbeki is a dead snake, ex-ANC honcho Mosiuoa Lekota is a cockroach, acolytes of Cape Town mayor and DA leader Helen Zille are [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Digging for victory, Mzansi style
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged garden, South Africa on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Marketed
Posted in Gardening, Thinking, tagged chinatown, edamame, markets, organic, vegetables on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So there is a definite change in the air here. Almost overnight the leaves are beginning to change, and there is a chill in the air that wasn’t there last weekend. Which means that, if you’re a banana-head like me, you go out on a Saturday morning and spend your day wandering around food markets, [...]
Putting on a new coat
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Given English reserve and the extraordinary talent of many Londoners for pretending not to see someone, it’s probably not the done thing to photograph one’s neighbour’s garden from an upstairs window. I’m not sure what the neighbour in question, whom I have never met but have seen at all times of the day and [...]
Given the boot
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bustin' my boots, South Africa on February 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is the boot. I mean the boot mentioned in the post before last, and if those aren’t the leaves of Melianthus major (or something very similar, must cover myself) I’m Joan Collins.
After initial enthusiasm for the print I began to feel it was a bit twee, so it took a few days to summon [...]
Happy Birthday, Big Guy!
Posted in Gardening, Reading, Thinking, tagged darwin, garden, science on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Charles Darwin’s birthday. And I can’t help feeling like it’s a big day, and one well worth celebrating.
Where would we be without him, after all?
Last year, when I was in London, I went to the big Darwin exhibition at the Natural History Museum and had a little moment as I walked in. There, [...]
These boots are made for walking
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In June last year Rebekahn and I put stylish Wellington boots at number four on a garden freebie wish list. Well, the recent snow in London has brought out boots or every sort, I tell you. Gumboots, my friends, those plain old black things we buy from the farmers’ co-op, are Simply Not [...]
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