There's no doubt that plants prefer rainwater to municipal water! After the soaking rain of the Easter weekend, the grass verges are green again, everything is looking perky and my freesias have burst out of their bulbs and have pushed out long leaves - they are going to flower very early, probably in June or July! Nature knows best, so I'm not going to complain.
After a sunny start to the day, things went downhill and the wind soon gusted over Cape Town at a healthy 60km/hr, bring a sprinkling of rain and intermittent sunshine here in the south Peninsula. We have had to adjust overnight to much cooler conditions and it's back into the winter uniform of jeans, long-sleeved t-shirt and fleecy whatsit (that zip-up thingy with no sleeves). An elegant scarf completes the look and hides a multitude of sins after an Easter weekend of seemingly non-stop eating. Now is the time to really shed the kilos before winter sets in and the comfort eating starts!
Speaking of which, tonight was the ideal weather for oxtail stew - something I make perhaps once a year - and it turned out a delightfully sticky, tasty treat after a long time in the pressure cooker. Happy tummies all round and lots of gravy for the doggies to lick. All are replete!
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