Meandering through my garden

No matter what time I work in or walk around my garden, I can always be assured of at least three dogs and three or more cats who accompany me. Above you can just see Angie's back in the foreground of the photo. Also visible in the photo are strips of plastic around the selected trees which my gardener will take out and load into Debbie's vehicle when they overnight here next week

Last week I posted about our son, John and his wife, Debbie who are starting a new life on their own piece of paradise in the Drakensberg. You can read about this here. Debbie has already begun to plant lawn around the caravan (which is their abode until they complete their building) as well as many indigenous trees and shrubs. Today I worked in my garden and together with gardener number one, John Tsie, we picked out many saplings and shrubs for Debbie. He will take these out and load into John's vehicle when John [Hedges] and Debbie stay overnight next week. We marked the selection with strips of plastic shopping bags.

Angie's tail and Eddie running into thee distance, show the presence of my pets in my garden

We had a wonderful shower of rain in the night which made me want to take dozens of photos of my garden - and I did. These photos will bring back beautiful memories once I'm back in the Sudan next week. Angie can be seen enjoying the garden as much as I do

Eddie is just visible in the lefthand corner of the photo. If she's not trying to catch tadpoles in my ponds, she's on the hunt for rats and other unsuspecting creatures under the shrubs

We have about seven barbel (catfish) in the large pond. Grant and I have been feeding them cat pellets at sunset. They have become amazingly tame and almost come up out of the water to eat the pellets which I scatter on the surface. The three dogs and Chip, our dopey cat, soon got to know the drill. Now they beg for a treat at the same time!

The garden is a haven for all our cats and dogs


Chip has her own natural scratching post in the garden

Pudding, my second oldest cat, always lies on the patio in the late afternoon. She seems to enjoy the warmth of the paving. Megan and Chip can be seen in the background

All the cats adore Angie and often cuddle up to her. Here she and Clarice share a special moment

While I was meandering around the garden photographing my memories and precious pets, Grant was preparing our motorcycle for sale. He will ride it to the city tomorrow where it will be displayed in the BMW bike dealer's showroom and hopefully catch a buyer's eye