Preparing for guests

 Hello dear Blogger friends. Thandi and I cleaned The Bunker on Tuesday, after our Christmas weekend guests. There was a LOT of cleaning to do. On Tuesday night, I inadvertently had a one night booking (which I don't encourage in peak season). Nevertheless, the guests arrived, stayed and left on Wednesday morning. 

So, Thandi, who is on extra leave between Christmas and New Year, offered to come in again and help me clean. Which we did. Very quickly and easily this time. These were exemplary guests and we were finished in no time at all. 

I had bought a large frozen chicken and two liter cream soda colddrink for Thandi to take home for New Year. On  the way home, we stopped at the Valley fresh produce stall, Hillbillies to buy butternuts and a pocket of potatoes. 

Thandi with her pocket of potatoes in front of the well-known Hillbillies which has recently opened at the Breweries/Airfield Lifestyle Centre in the Central Drakensberg 

I then dropped Thandi in the township.  a few meters from her home. 

HERE'S TO THE PENULTAMATE DAY OF 2021! 

Wild bird Wednesday

 It's been many years - too many - since I linked to Stewart's Wild Bird Wednesday post. There's no time like the present, so here goes...

Sacred ibis and a pair of yellow-billed duck on the dam this week

Swainson's spurfowl 

Reed Cormorant 

White-faced Duck with a dirty face - according to my SIL Shelley, who is my birding mentor 

White-faced Duck 

African Spoonbill

I'm linking to Wild Bird Wednesday, here

Christmas ain't Christmas without...

 ..traditional trifle. 

Note: this is my last post on Christmas!

Two weeks ago I attended the service at my church, St Mary's Anglican Church in Winterton. Because I often clean The Bunker on a Sunday, I don't regularly get to church in town. On occasion,  I have managed to attend the Turning Point, charismatic church service, pastored by my friends, Ray and Rene Mattig, as it's held  in the Champagne Valley, just 1km from the Bunker. 

This particular Sunday after church, my friend, Jenny Hall was the hostess serving tea. Along with banana bread, sandwiches and Romany Creams, she had a plate of boudoir  biscuits. Seeing these, reminded me of how we mothers in the mid-70's gave these to our babies when they were teething.

It also reminded me of the traditional Christmas trifle which Grant and I made every year . I decided there and then to buy the necessary ingredients and make trifle. 

Which I did on Christmas morning after returning from opening gifts at the neighbor's house. 

It was a LARGE trifle and perfect for me to enjoy over the Christmas weekend.

Which is what I did...

Christmas Trifle - it was delicious