This is my Journal. It shares our life here in South Africa – 9,000 miles from home.

Our House

Our house here is an amazingly lucky find. Our landlord needed someone to live in his house, we needed a place to live. He had stored all his furniture and accessories in the garage and wanted to get them out of storage. We arrived with no household items ourselves. He is letting us live with all his personal design sense, furniture, decor, kitchenware, plants, etc.

Our house

Elgin Open Gardens is a 2 weekend affair with 9 gardens to explore. It is a charity event and the owners open private gardens to the public for the benefit of whichever charity each supports. Each garden is so unique – some quite formal and one a hillside being planted with natural plants and flowers for their preservation. Very beautiful and informative and we certainly enjoyed all of them.