This is the last post in this short series featuring the UDDI's Despatch Eco-Hub. Part of their vegetable garden project is a very innovative hanging tomato garden. The tomato seeds were first planted together before its going to be replanted into cut off plastic two liters cold drink bottles. These containers will then be hung on the fence with wire creating a tomato "hedge". Very good idea if you are short of space.
The view from the top of Table Mountain is magnificent, awesome, stunning, breathtaking, beautiful, blêrrie mooi, unbeatable, c'est magnifique... and so I can go on. How do you enhance that view even more? You get a couple of people to sit right on the edge - or just use an angle to make it look like they do - and take a picture of them enjoying that (all the above adjectives all over again) view. In this case they were…
One of the main projects at the UDDI's Despatch Eco-Hub is a very innovative tyre garden. Two tyres are fixed onto of each other, filled with soil and veggies planted in them. It a great way to recycle tyres as well as establish a veggie garden where the soil may be of bad quality or there may not be enough space for a garden. They can quite easily be moved around as well. The other thing tyres are used for at the…
The Uitenhage Despatch Development Initiative (UDDI) recently established their first Eco-Hub as a pilot project in the Despatch township of Khayamnandi. The project is about "transforming hot spots into green spots" and involves the empowerment of members from the local community to do something for themselves, their community as well as the environment. One of the components of the project is a recycle station where residents can separate glass, paper, plastic and cans with a fifth bin for grass cuttings…
Perhaps it's only me, but this angle of the cable car approaching the Upper Cable Station on Table Mountain is probably one of the most iconic and recognisable Table Mountain photo opportunities not showing the actual mountain. I especially like this angle when the low clouds push in from the sea and you only see the top of Lions Head sticking out above it. Now if I can just get the opportunity to photograph it which isn't the easiest thing to…
Visiting Cuyler Manor Museum in Uitenhage with a couple of colleagues last week, we had an opportunity to be shown around the museum grounds and the old manor house by a very enthusiastic Rosie. Rosie has been working for the museum for years and even though she isn't a trained guide she could just as well have been. She told us all the stories regarding specific things around the farm yard, but once we got into the manor house she was…
One of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Situated within an Unesco World Heritage Site. Part of a National Park. Not just one of Cape Towns most iconic landmarks, but also one of South Africa's. Who I am? Sound like a question from a game show with the obvious answer being Table Mountain. Now I hope nobody got it wrong though. Table Mountain was on the top of our list of places to visit while in Cape…
After a hot January, summer took a bit of a back seat during February. The last week or so it's been back with force and we could get back in the pool again. Last Sunday we headed down to Sardinia Bay for a walk with the dogs and Drama Princess couldn't resist trying out the calm waters of one of the little bays.
The Damselfly started running a couple of months ago and I have now been drawn into the picture. The plan was for her and her running partner to go and do the Knysna Forest Half Marathon in July and unfortunately her partner had to pull out because she is unable to go. That is where I come in. Kinda voluntarily forced. So I'm slowly putting in more effort in the gym and started doing the 5km fun runs on Saturday…
Traffic along Marine Drive on the Port Elizabeth beachfront just after sundown