When we arrived, not a single rose was blossoming, and now we already have a shower of flowers! The jungle of weeds has been taken out, and in the tiny vegetable patch the beans & other stuff we sowed are popping up. The empty spaces we had after the weeding are filled with nice new plants, thanks to Janny. She took Maud to the nursery to cash the 'Pick Plants next Spring'-present Cees & Janny gave us last autumn.
The garden tells us it's spring; otherwise we wouldn't know. After a first nice warm week the temperature changed, so Maud is walking around wrapped in a blanket like a real Motswana, to survive the overnight frost...
Right now the concrete jungle doesn't pester us too much cause we're buried in work. Maud's glued to her computer day & night, busy with editing and writing. Luckily she's got an extensive cyber social life now that Steven & Richardt told her to take a Facebook account. Add that to gmail & gmail chat, and being online almost always, and your virtual socializing is guaranteed.
There's a lot of real life socializing to do also. Although after our Pentecost weekend we postponed most 'meet & greet' events till after this extremely busy month of May, we had Marjan & Rubel over for an evening do, Charmian for tea & chatting, Bram's tio Haroen & family for boating (the family & Bram) and loitering in the garden (Haroen & Maud), Janny for dinner, Maud's dad for lunch, and Mehmet & Astrid for 'kuierkos'.
Our theme for this summer's guests: kuierkos; a plate of this, and that, and something else, and suddenly you can call it 'dinner'. This is the great part of being in the Low Lands: spending time with friends, having these evenings where you suddenly realize 'mi gado, it is morning already, and I have to work today!'
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Ahhh tante Janny... she also came over and potted plants at Jack and Tui's house. Jack was impressed:
http://ceesjack.blogspot.com/2008/05/thanks-oma.html
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