MORE OF GREEN POINT GARDENS

Beauty in nature and exercise can be enjoyed together in the Biodiversity Garden in Green Point. What a pleasure!

Just the place to take visitors to. That's the thing I love so much about Cape Town; the places you get to enjoy when you take your visitors to see it. There are a couple of new places I would like to go to and others I would like to revisit. 

Love this photo of the dam with 'fish-on-sticks'

with the Stadium in the background

The Gardens in Green Point is child-friendly, wheelchair/pram friendly, with lots of seating and interesting things to keep you busy on the walk. 

'SMELL THE ROSES' or INDIGENOUS PLANTS...  Will be posting own pics soon.

Biodiversity Garden featured in Biodiversity Blog

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There's been much activity on the signage front in the Biodiversity Garden. Some new additions, an improved fixing method and new graphics ...

EVER HEARD OF 'PEPPER NUTS'?

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BAKE A CAKE!

Today was the day. The weekend is upon us, and the pantry needs to be filled. A Chocolate Cake is on the cards!
This Chocolate Cake is very special. I have never had much success with chocolate cake .... always comes out too dry. This is a different recipe, and even if I have to say so myself ... it is divine! Soft, chocolatey, yum-yummie.
Try it and see how you find it ... I promise, you will LOVE it!

This recipe for Chocolate Slab Cake with buttermilk icing is large enough to satisfy a crowd - serve as is or with ice cream or creme fraiche

Ingredients

500ml Sugar
500ml Self-Raising Flour
2ml Salt
250g Margarine
250ml Water
100ml Cocoa Powder
3 Eggs - beaten

125ml Buttermilk
5ml Vanilla Essence
5ml Bicarbonate of Soda

Topping:
250g Icing Sugar
100ml Cocoa Powder
60ml Melted Butter
75ml Buttermilk

Directions

Pre-heat oven to 180 C
Grease & flour a large pan or oven roasting dish & line with baking parchment

(I used 2x square glass baking dishes, just sprayed with cooking spray)

Sift flour, bicarb & salt in a large mixing bowl
Mix in the sugar
Heat margarine, water and cocoa to boiling point in saucepan
Beat eggs together, add buttermilk and vanilla
Pour hot butter mixture over the dry ingredients and mix well
Add the egg mixture and mix until smooth

Pour into prepared pan and bake for about 30 minutes

Topping:
Mix all together well
Pour over hot cake in pan
Leave to cool completely then cut into squares

ENJOY !! : )

SHAPE COLLAGE CREATION

Hi, here is one of the collages I made with the new Shape Photo program. It is of our train trip to Simontown.
Next, a heart shape?? Watch this space : )

A pity the name 'Shape Collage.com' is in the middle of the pic. Would have been better at the bottom, is anywhere.

Shape Collage - Automatic Photo Collage Maker

Shape Collage - Automatic Photo Collage Maker: Shape Collage is a photo collage maker software program. Automatically create picture collages in a variety of shapes with just a few mouse clicks. Available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

ON THE TRAIN TO SIMONSTOWN

THE DAY WAS SUNNY, THE BEACHES WERE FULL

ALL ALONG THE COASTLINE FROM

MUIZENBERG TO SIMONSTOWN

A WALK IN THE PARK

SPENT A DAY IN GOVERNMENT GARDENS

IN CAPE TOWN

FEEDING THE BIRDS & SQUIRRELS

THE CHILDREN LOVED IT!

A DAY IN SIMONSTOWN

TOOK A TRAIN TRIP TO SIMONSTOWN

Old buildings, Old cars

Look how colorful! & the ice cream was divine ...

HOLIDAY in SALDHANA

WENT TO SALDHANA FOR A FEW DAYS IN DECEMBER,

VISITING FRIENDS AND WALKING ON THE BEACH

RELAXING AND RECHARGING FOR THE NEW YEAR

See what else we did in the holidays ...