Sunday 16th September
Another frantic month has passed since I was at Boggy Pond… a month filled with a bewildering mix of building and installing new lighting for the Cape Town studio, directing auditions, signing endless reams of paper, a lightning trip to Johannesburg to do some packing – but not enough – and two weeks back in Cape Town in the studio with Christa…
Oh, and somewhere in all that, I endured a major mechanical breakdown of my trusty Opel Kadett, which was quickly repaired by the mechanic son of our Estate Agent at a very reasonable price.
Our plans have been somewhat truncated because the buyer of our house in Johannesburg now wants to move in two weeks earlier – at the beginning of October.
I took Christa to the airport on Saturday, then continued up the N2 to Caledon, and then Tesselaarsdal, arriving here just as she boarded her flight. The plan was for Christa to handle the move from Johannesburg while I continued to earn some income in the Cape Town studio, but we’ve just decided that I will fly back after this Tuesday’s studio session to help with the packing and storage. The Movers arrive on Tuesday next week, so I’ll have to leave Johannesburg early next Monday, get in a few days of studio auditions, then stand by for the arrival of the pantechnicon at the end of the week…
I suspect that it will be another month before I get back here to Boggy Pond, by which time all the water will have evaporated from the dams. It seems odd that the last time I was here I was working in the rain to control the run-off water, while today I sweltered over Invoicing in 34 degree heat in the Cabin.
Some time during the past four months I took pictures which I didn’t get a chance to post, so here they are, just because…
July this year was wonderfuly misty, draping the dozens of spiderwebs with glinting diamonds
Another web in the meadow below my Northern border
A lone Hadedah huddles on a branch. Even these noisy birds seem to behave themselves a little better in the mist, gliding quietly from perch to perch
How many spider webs can you see in this picture?
The fields are covered in white and yellow daisies at this time of year, and I’m glad I was able to enjoy even these few days back at Boggy Pond, because neither the flowers nor the water will last much longer
A few pink flowers hide shyly amongst the Daisies.
With a view like this, the two-hour commute to Cape Town is no hardship
A nocturnal view from our rented apartment, just two streets away from our new home. The lights of central Cape Town lie beyond the shalow waters of the Zandvlei