Anyone who has ever lived in Johannesburg will tell you that one of the things they love the most about this big, bad, wonderful city are the summer thunderstorms. Our winters are dry and cold, and summer is hot and wet, but unlike the tropics, our summer storms are violent rages of wind, rain and [...]
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Just Another Joburg Friday Night…
Posted in Good Things, tagged art, garden, hail, johannesburg, Kentridge, storms on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bounty
Posted in Gardening, Good Things, tagged artichokes, johannesburg, summer on October 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Early summer in South Africa really is a wonderful thing. Especially in Joburg, where the sudden heat is mitigated by regular, wonderful thunderstorms, which wash the city clean, cool the air and make the nights tolerable. The heat and the wet also mean that suddenly the fruit and veggie shops are filled with the new [...]
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
Posted in Uncategorized on October 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You can imagine it, can’t you. Two friends on a walk, arriving at a fork in the road and debating which way to go, left or right. Apparently that’s the story behind Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken . Frost’s friend and walking partner, Edward Thomas, would get to the end of the walk [...]
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