First exploration of Longmore getting to know the roads and using the gps. Familiar terrain from our days with the Volkswagen Rally. Lots of preparation at home to set waypoints at strategic locations to ensure we didn\’t get lost finding our way to Sandrivier and found ourselves some nice fynbos along the footpath down to […]
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UncategorizedThe other day I acquired an old door made from Oregon Pine. It had some old borer beetle holes in it so I wasn’t too keen to use it for anything inside the house so decided to use some of it on the windmill.
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MolenDankzij alle aanwijzingen en foto’s van Peter van Sloten heb ik nu wat meer houvast wat het maken van de wieken allemaal inhoudt. Ik had er niet aan gedacht om mijn boormachine op de slimme manier die Peter voorstelde te gebruiken en, perfectionist die ik ben, denk dat ik verder ga met mijn idee van
It has been a while since I blogged on my own blog, somehow the Van Stadens one seems to get preference. During our weekend away at Slagboom guest farm in the Zuurberg we were keen to go and check up on “our” Pelargonium ovale which we discovered a few years ago. Unfortunately it grows on
This is a collection of photos we took on our trip to Cape Town at three locations, Grootvadersbosch Cape Nature Reserve, Urban Retreat at the foot of the Anysberg mountains and Gamkaberg near Oudtshoorn. We also went to the botanical gardens in Worcester and Cape Town but I have not included these. P.fruticosum:Anysberg:UrbanRetreat P.ovale:Anysberg:UrbanRetreat P.myrrhifolium
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Travel02.02.2014 Pelargonium rescued when we dug in the Van Stadens Wild Flower Reserve water pipe. Only had a small piece, no tuber and it has taken 4 years to flower. The leaves are very divided We counted 19 flowers on the umbel 4 long, 3 short anthers The flower stalks develop straight from the tuber.
The campsite The waterfall above the campsite You haven’t been to Ysrivier if you didn’t do the bumslide Good little rapid with standing wave Halfway down you have this amazing Strelizia forest Fair amount of wading Somewhere at this spot Bert Bongers climbed out And then it started to rain… just before the tricky waterfall
19.01.2014 I realised I have not blogged about the windmill for ages. That is probably because I have hardly made any progress in the past year, nevertheless there has been some work since my last posting so here goes: I am happy to say that the frame is now finished, doing all the mortise and
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Molen17.01.2014 We have 3 plants which we call P.candiscans, they have subtle differences. Unfortunately I missed the flowers of some but just the growth form alone is markedly different. Species 1: Found in Worcester, note that the cultivated plan is much greener than the plant in situ (the one with the flower), 4 petals Species
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