Category: Garden
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The Old Stone Wall
When we arrived here 6 years ago, there was a low-yield borehole which, it seems, used to live inside a stone walled pump house. I imagine at one point in time it looked rather pretty with its white and purple bougainvillea bushes growing up the brown stone walls, but having tried for a few years…
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Farmyard Treasure
We’ve tried with a few chickens over the past 8 months, starting with a rooster and a hen which had to be kept in a hutch to save them being mauled by the dog! The rooster, as pretty as he was, didn’t last long. He was just too vocal with no apparent schedule to its…
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Homegrown
That tatty little greenhouse? This is the Dendrobium Phalaenopsis we grew there, from a Keiki (a baby orchid)
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Two Years Later
Just over two years after we first moved in, I thought it would be a good idea to post pictures of what everything now looks like. The kitchen, scullery and rear side of the house where the two spare bedrooms are Unrecognizable. With the new garage in the way, the house is now completely…
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The Borehole
For those of you who haven’t been to Zimbabwe, life in the blue collar suburbs of the capital city is more like being on a farm than anything else. You need: a 4×4 to get to and from your house given the state of the roads the ability to survive without electricity (given the frequency…
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Painting the wall
A huge amount has happened in the last few weeks and I just haven’t had a second to get round to posting any pictures – fortunately Bid sent this one via WhatsApp today of her project, the outside wall paint 🙂 Its gonna look awesome!
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In the beginning…
A collection of photos taken to document the starting point of our chopping, ripping, digging, relaying, repaving, resurfacing and repainting of the new house