The Cape of Storms !!!!!!

Good morning one and all from a VERY windy part of the country.  Good golly gosh what a week in terms of the weather, when Bartolomeu Dias named the Cape the "Cape of Storms" in the 1480's he was telling the truth.  This last week we have gone from clear sunny skies and not a breath of wind to gale force winds on Thursday night and 58mm of rain (in our gauge) in less that 24 hours.  In total we have had 78 mm up until yesterday which dawned silent, cloudless and cold, by lunch time the wind started picking up and became a very healthy gale with massive gusts throughout the night.  I did notice this morning that the metal flue/bird on our neighbours chimney is now missing, we will go looking for it when things die down hehe.

Weather apart it was a good week 😁, I managed to catch up with my life as such and, even took time for some recovery and rest.  My ever busy Hubby as always, was working on watches and various things in his garage, at times I am surprised to see him come out unscathed.  That garage is a minefield of various things, equipment, machines and who knows what, walking through is a carefully calculated risk and only he knows where most things are.  Although I did prove him wrong over the weekend .... I had asked him to put an old duvet cover away for future use and I now want to start doing some embroidery using that material.  When I asked him to bring it in he vowed and declared it was not there and neither had he seen it ...... hmmmm I knew it was there as well as my big embroidery hoop.  Eventually yesterday during load shedding we went in together to look and I spied my small embroidery hood hanging on a nail 🤷🏻‍♀️, then after unsuccessfully looking for the bigger one I started scratching around looking for the 'not there' duvet cover.  Not four minutes later I unearthed it from under a box and in a box - victory !!!!!!

On Saturday with our third cold front destined to make landfall late yesterday AND because Charlie somehow managed to convert his jacket into a skirt which he piddled  on, I decided to make him a second jacket.  Such fun, truly.  I took an old track suit top which Poppet handed down years ago and cut the sleeve off thereby successfully turning it into a spiffy jacket for the shorn doggie.  Yesterday morning for the first time in weeks I woke up actually wanting to be creative, I baked some cappuccino muffins and then turned my mind to making Max and Sasha each a spare jacket.  When I made the first lot I had one which was for Sasha but ended up too small so, fired by my success with Charlie's I started with that and with some minor alteration converted it into a nice one for Max, just by hand stitching (I am too scared to sit in front of the sewing machine just yet as my back is still tweaking) - it came out like a charm.  Next I moved onto Sasha and had to start from scratch as she is bigger than the boys, I started off by cutting it out, planning to do the same as Max.  Hubby very kindly zig zagged it all around on the machine and when I got to fitting and hand stitching, copying Max's was not going to work ......... so I 'winged it' and it worked. All three are different and yet all fit beautifully and we now have spares to wash and wear. 👏🏻  I am pretty chuffed to say the least.  Whilst I was busy Hubby was checking and doing minor repairs to the roof, sealing our front door (again), he also shortened the bird feeder by 5cm as he was struggling to reach.  All in all I would say we have had a productive week/end. 

During the week I saw an advert for a Fresh Box delivery from one of the farms who actually deliver to BB (can you believe it AND no delivery fee) so we put in an order for their basic box and Oh WOW what a pleasure.  They delivered on Friday in the heavy rain ☔️ this beautiful box of fresh produce arrived plus ciabatta bread, a frozen lasagne, beef burger patties, chicken fillets, citrus, granadillas and eggs.  In total four meals just straight off the bat and then a recipe card with ideas for further meals using the box's ingredients.  I could SO get used to this and every week the contents change as well as the variety of boxes that can be ordered whoop, whoop.  It worked out perfectly because on Friday morning when Hubby went shopping, the Spar in Kleinmond was closed for deep cleaning, sadly the number of CoVid 19 cases in Klmd has sky rocketed.  This ended up with him doing a 'top up' shop at the O.K.Bazaars, my mind is working overtime to be able to get the box regularly and just use the local store for cleaning, dairy and dry groceries.

Well folks, and enough of me rambling on,  we are having incredibly high winds, all the windows are whistling, it is bitterly coldI need to get things going.  Please take care of yourselves, stay safe and stay well.  Ciao ciao for now.

One of our waterfalls taken on Saturday.