Today can be summarized in one sentence, plumbing, weeding, planting and talking. We hadn’t seen the staff for a while so Ellie needed some catching up with the happenings at the reserve. We were impressed that the new garden at the parking area was nicely weeded, the grass in and around the nursery was impeccably […]
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We’ve had a series of exceptionally hot days lately and, as another one was predicted for Wednesday, we decided it would be better to shift the old fogies day to Tuesday. It still was rather hot and we tried to find shade in the arboretum to try and get some semblance of order in the
The fab four were present today and apart from hacking, composting all trees in the arboretum and extensive work in the nursery nothing of note happened. We saw fleeting glimpses of staff but no work was observed.
For our monthly meeting it was decided rather than doing some much needed work to go out and sniff the flowers on the mountain. It is not easy to think of something which we have not done before and is not too strenuous and I came up with a 1km walk to a small peak
One must be dedicated to go to Van Stadens even on one’s birthday. Of course I planned to take it easy and ‘just quickly’ put a joiner in the pipe where we made a temporary repair before going to Cape Town The exercise was easy enough, take rocks off, cut pipe, let water run out
