tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90601811696703314932024-02-20T02:21:35.763+02:00the sourcererthe sourcererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09044348096335000768noreply@blogger.comBlogger471125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9060181169670331493.post-66520932612602500332016-10-12T17:45:00.000+02:002017-08-13T17:31:26.481+02:00Life, magnified.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Our garden always has a skink or two. This is the dark baby I've spotted a few times, basking in the sun. (Through the eyes of a tall man, whom I have convinced to join Instagram - you can see more of his incredible images <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sareloff/"><b>here</b></a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Life is busy right now... I find myself neglecting important things - like this place of mine. Blog posts take time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I've written a thousand in my head, but right now</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I'm finding it much easier to post a photograph now and then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">They are <a href="https://www.instagram.com/the.sourcerer/">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I'm moving on to other things and it may be that the time has come to say so long... I've loved every second.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's not unusual to see the tall man lying on his stomach on the ground, or with his head in a bush. He has introduced me to a different universe...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I'll miss the smell of burnt sugar that hangs heavily in the humid air. The human cries of the hornbills. The clicking of fruit bats and falling asleep to the lullaby of nightjars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The leopard orchids that I cosset at home here grow in trees - lush and abundant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">How heartening to read that in 2012, when the book was published, head gardener Liesl van der Walt says that she wants to learn to be a beekeeper, with the knowledge of that wish now being a reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Once a week, to fulfil a daily order, Cornelle walks </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">through the farm gardens </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">with head gardener Liesl van der Walt. They discuss the needs of the kitchen, taking note of what is in season and what is budding and burgeoning. I'm sure that they also have time for a laugh or two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Ah: <i>Skaapribbetjie </i>(Mutton ribs). Chicken wings. And if time allows - time for cooking stock from scratch and those important things... oxtail. A girl after our own hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The title of this post is a quote by Sir Terence Conran. I scribbled it on the flyleaf of a tiny black book which I took with me on my overseas wanderings many, many years ago. In it are my favourite recipes, written in the girlish handwriting of way back then. (Bobotie, Lamb and apple meatballs, my Ouma's date chutney...</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I brought the bulbs back from Natal two years ago, carefully wrapped up in a piece of African fabric in my suitcase. They had clumps of red earth clinging to their roots and were given to me by a German woman I met in a shop in the Midlands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She had baskets full of them hanging from trees in the driveway leading up to her house. She took me to places on the seamier side of town. She knew some Zulu and shouted good-naturedly at the women who tried to sell us things for more than they were worth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">It's not always an easy thing, working so far away from home. But I often think of my time in Natal, the people I met there and how things seemed to happen in such fortuitous ways.</span><br />
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the sourcererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09044348096335000768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9060181169670331493.post-27539515619798903772016-05-09T15:41:00.000+02:002016-05-10T15:38:40.664+02:00Autumn is a darker Spring.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>T</i></span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">elegraph Cucumbers, American Wonder Peas, Marrow Peas</i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Each bag is equipped with the Mauthner name, his best seeds.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My friend Henri (who owns my favourite shop on this planet - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Kooperasiestories/">Koöperasie Stories</a>) was on one of his Eastern European buying trips when he sent me an image of this beautiful old shop display cabinet</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">born in 1848 in Budapest, Hungary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After studies applied to seed breeding at the </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Magyaróvár college and abroad, he founded a large company and experimental station, employing 800 workers. He received merits from the Hungarian nobility.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(I broke this rule once only: on the last day of a film, I told the wonderfully deadpan Bob Newhart how much he had made me laugh as a teenager. He's a lovely and gracious man.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Let me explain: that is a cardboard container - completely recyclable. Those are <i>arancini</i>, which I last ate in Rome. They made me swoon - those crispy, melt-in-the-mouth balls of deep fried, tomato-ey risotto with mozzarella centres. Not a trace of oil. Alongside a zingy pesto - so green the herbs must have been growing still, mere minutes ago.</span></div>
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the sourcererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09044348096335000768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9060181169670331493.post-81825283125737183452016-03-13T11:08:00.001+02:002016-03-13T16:52:25.756+02:00In dreams.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">One night this week past, I found myself inside the world of a much loved photograph by Thomas Abercrombie. Close to the carpet-covered hillside was a settlement. Women were hanging fabrics to dry over low, scorched bushes. It was that magic hour with the golden light.</span></div>
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the sourcererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09044348096335000768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9060181169670331493.post-66721776467056119592016-03-06T12:42:00.000+02:002016-03-06T12:46:29.569+02:00The call of objects.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I had some nice little lily pads in the city, back when I was a single woman. Most of my possessions have been packed away for almost three years now, but one day I will unpack</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> my crates and gasp. Sometimes, at night when I lie awake, I walk through those places - peering into cupboards and drawers - wondering if I still have that bent spoon, or the postcard from Japan that was written in spirals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A few weeks ago, on a hot, hot day, I met my friend Niki in town. We sat at Café Mozart, under the trees. Niki remembers those trees when they were small. When he was my lecturer at university, he was younger than I am now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">My mother remembers Tretchikoff selling his paintings in Garlicks - a department store in town, in the 60's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">She found them rather awful, though my grandmother had his "Lost Orchid" hanging in the hallway, above a half moon table with a crystal bowl of Gerrie Hoek dahlias from the garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The bee balm bush is full of shaggy flowers. A plant wonderful in so many ways that it has been named several times. Bergamot, horsemint, oswego tea and monarda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">He lays out my clean laundry in interesting combinations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">At her bedside there were no chairs, no flowers. I had imagined it differently. She was beautiful and peaceful - as if merely sleeping. It was her birthday and I read her some messages from people who were far away. I told her something from long ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whenever I go to Geoff and Alistair's shop, I am drawn - beyond understanding, to the items with no price. Yesterday it was an old garden fork. Turns out it's the tool they use to draw the security shutter down with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With persistence, sometimes I get what I want. Hence the weathered grey step - now my nightstand. The pink Colonial lady hails from Côte d'Ivoire and has watched over me for many a year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I get all het up when there isn't a pile of bedside books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some stay there for many months, for the odd dip into - Elizabeth David's French Country Cooking, the love letters of André P. Brink and Ingrid Jonker which are way too intense for a single sitting. Other important things live there too: a mini Maglite for power cuts and late night rambles. Tomato leaf hand cream. Reading glasses. Zam Buk salve for lips and itchy bites. The leather nail care kit given to my father by an order of nuns. Calendula tissues for the sniffles. Notebooks for dreams, recipes and playlists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I finished Patti Smith's book last night, <i>so</i> reluctantly. (A tall man bears the best gifts.) I don't remember ever being reduced to sobbing by a book before... Patricia hits a nerve. But mostly I smiled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">She is woven into the fabric of my small town childhood - my three older brothers had all of her records, I know all the words, I know all the moves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> How I wish we could meet in a dream: Patti, the cowpoke and I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Amongst other things, she has awoken my Murakami-lust, so I plan to reread them all. Their books are similar in many ways: love and loss, the importance we give to objects. The rituals of living. There is always spaghetti, there is classical music and poetry and of course, there are cats.</span></div>
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the sourcererhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09044348096335000768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9060181169670331493.post-44620255961847731282015-12-31T16:12:00.001+02:002015-12-31T16:12:59.086+02:00Year's end.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There's a feeling I've been getting lately - South Africa's plummeting rand has been good for the film industry, BUT ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">foreigners arrive here thinking that we are cheap, thus inferior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Afterwards, I burnt my notebook. I deleted all of the emails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We found a crumbling old cemetery further up the hill, very small. Someone had planted white freesias on a grave here many years ago - they were straggly, but filled the air with their scent. Synapses fired in my brain: Grandmother. Birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On our way back we bumped into the men with the metal detectors and this time we stopped to talk. They wanted to know what we were looking for and tried very hard to convince us to buy metal detectors: You'll never look back!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We've never liked the idea of digging for something though - preferring to glean what is lying on the surface. One of the men told me that in his diving days he had found lots of Ming under the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He rooted through the small canvas bag tied around his waist. A ball of wire/ bottle tops/ a rusty nail. Here you are! and he handed me a lovely little piece of Staffordshire transferware.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Salty sea dogs they were, but very sweet. Since then we call all the porcelain shards that we pick up <i>Ming</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As we walked off the one said to the other: Come on, let's go cause some more <i>kak</i> somewhere else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Funnily enough, they also produced Asiatic Pheasant, a lovely pale blue and white pattern, which we also find bits of now and then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That <i>shirrr</i> mystified us so much that the tall man made a little field recording one night. It was a familiar sound to us both, a call and reply, but we couldn't place it - bird? frog?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"The African species of the genus grow in fynbos, grassland and miombo woodland, and can sometimes be found in extensive and dense colonies of thousands of individuals, particularly in the year after a veld fire." Another aha moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You may know them as fava or broad beans. In South Africa we call them <i>boerbone</i>. Which may make you think that they are a commonplace thing, but sadly they're not. If you're lucky enough to get them at a farmer's market, so be it. But I can't take the chance that a year goes by without making <a href="http://www.ottolenghi.co.uk/beef-meatballs-with-broad-beans-lemon-shop"><b>Yotam Ottolenghi's Meatballs</b></a>.</span></div>
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