I received tickets to go and watch the Warriors, our local cricket franchise, play the Knights in a Pro20 game on Friday night. I've only taken the family along to a cricket match once before a couple of years ago and decided to do so again. We sat on the grass banks below the Duckpond Pavilion and Chaos Boy pulled his chair right up to the barriers flying his Warriors flag.
A couple of us at work have started to pop out once a week to visit some of the tourist and historic (which is also tourist) attractions around town to familiarise and keep ourselves up to date with the places tourists would go to. The places we selected for last week's visit presented us with a lot of stained glass both historic as well as much more recent. Here I caught one of my colleagues photographing a stained glass window in the…
The last couple of posts featured visiting Table Mountain and going up by cable car as well as the fabulous panoramic views and view sites on top of the mountain. But all the pictures was taken from the mountain itself, so for today's post I wanted to show the view of the actual mountain as seen from the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront.
The art project currently on display at the Athenaeum building in Central is a project called Conversations with Victoria. Once the project has been implemented it will consist of a number of life-size figures of both political figures as well as ordinary people placed around the statue of Queen Victoria in front of the Public Library in the city centre. It will seem as if they are in discussion with the Queen regarding the past, present and future. Perhaps a little…
The Athenaeum in Port Elizabeth was founded in the 1850′s to promote cultural activities but sadly died out in the 1880′s. In 1893 the Young Men’s Institute, the School of Art, the Naturalists’ Society and the Camera Club came together and re-assert the right of the Athenaeum to occupy a part of the City Hall. The then Town Council offered to bear most of the cost to erect the present building which was opened in 1896. In the early years of the 1900′s it…
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…