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

It could have been lonely out there today as no-one of the usual Wednesday crew turned up except the two stalwarts but thankfully first  Noxolo and Samantha lent a hand in the shade house and later Tony did the same in the Arboretum. What started out as a simple weeding session in the shade house

As the first meeting of the year was billed as a work party there was a very low turnout, the more so because Jenny had car trouble and Rob was out somewhere trying out his new camper. We discussed the issues I have highlighted in the previous posting at length and the main decision taken

When one goes to the Reserve as often as the core group does one gets used to what the place looks like so I thought it might be useful to highlight a few places where there might be room for improvement. Let’s start with the “furniture”, the picnic benches and an idea to salvage something

With the temporarily demise of our weather station (making good progress fixing it) we are not quite sure how hot it was, it must have been close to 40 degrees. Rob and Keith went out hacking anyway but came back early as it was unbearable. Good time for Cathy and Ellie to take some trays

Our first Wednesday of the New Year and back to working away at the Reserve. Already the first New Year’s resolution of taking it a bit easier broken as it turned out to be quite a busy day. We started off with some chemical warfare against whatever is eating the seedlings in the misting house

Over the holiday period our website and blog has been moved to a new provider and this is the first posting to check if our blog is still alive and well. We planned to welcome the New Year on top of the mountain, unfortunately the weather up there was so foul that we decided it