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Kirstenbosch wander

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A couple of hours in the sun at Kirstenbosch this afternoon, before the upcoming Matthew Mole concert made things loud and busy.

A few lizards and mice around. Plenty of birds, including a rather hungry Cape Sugarbird (Promerops cafer) and some very pretty, very dainty Black Saw-wings (Psalidoprocne pristoptera)

A few kilometres and some very nice fresh air was just what I needed after an unexpectedly boozy evening out last night and a very necessary lie-in this morning.

Now it’s back to real life with some household chores and a bit of FA Cup football.

View from the weekend

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We went away and then we did very, very little.

Save, of course, from enjoying the views, the hot tub, the pool and the pizza oven.

On Saturday morning, I went out on a bit of run that then turned into a bit of a hike, and ended up climbing up onto the koppie 250m above our accommodation, leaving me with this view down the Breede Valley:

Not bad at all. New phone camera doing the business.
And I only nearly died a couple of times.

Right now, it’s back to reality: picking up kids from school and making dodgy salads for dinner.

But… it was a fun weekend.

Almost the same

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We went to watch some cricket last night. We almost didn’t get to see any cricket because of the only rain Cape Town has seen in about 2 months (and is only likely to see for the next 2 months), but all ended well with a dramatic, shortened match.

And then, as we left, this image:

Which weirdly reminded me of another – from a different time and place – that I had seen while going through some old images earlier in the week:

The sun is a floodlight, the dust is drizzle, the tree… well, that’s also a floodlight, and the buffaloes are the happy punters heading into the night.

Same same, really.

Tomorrow: wine tasting!
Watch this space.