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Riviersonderend Cells

The Cells are constructed of two layers of corrugated iron with cement in between. Large rivets hold the layers of corrugated iron together.
The cells had concrete floors which couldn’t have been particularly warm in winter.
There are two separate cells.

The cells used to have toilets in them. These have since been removed. You can see where the toilet used to be. The brown oblong shape is a ventilator.

The windows are high and barricaded with steel reinforcing bar.
The doors are double layered iron.

Strangely enough the door hinges are on the inside.

The keys are huge!

Five star outside ablutions were also providedbehind the cells.
In case you are wondering the shower (on the right) and the basin are only provided with cold water.

Right now, the graffiti. The graffiti is carved into the door jambs and scraped onto the doors themselves. The most poignant bit of graffiti in the whole collection is this one.

The rest? Well I will leave you to decide.

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Random Photographs

Lemon tree blossom and some visitors
Sunrise
Rainbow
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Lightning Storm

The thunder woke me at 3 am and I stumbled out of bed to witness one of the better thunderstorms I have seen recently. It lasted well over an hour. I have edited it so that best bits are shown and some have been slowed down to give a better view of the lightning bolt.

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Garden Birds

Seen in our garden in Riviersonderend

Cape White Eye

Cape Sparrow on the grape vine

Red Bishop

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Visit to Riviersonderend – 11 November 2018

I visited the Riviersonderend house in the first week of November 2018 because the water tanks had been vandalised by the local children looking for cold water to play in. James Hill did a nifty repair for me and all I had to do was nod and look impressed. Which I did and was. He found a tiny person to climb into the tank and hold the other end of the tap.

And he also trimmed back the hedge that had been encroaching on the road, let alone the sidewalk.

He also cleaned a bit of the back garden for a vegetable garden.

The tanks have been providing a necessary support to the garden as you can see in the following pictures. Especially the Tecomas brought back from extinction.

And my coral trees are doing just fine.

Rose carpet doing well.And the grapes.

My struggling tree likes the special attention too

A welcome flowering from the jasmine, despite being neglected

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New floors in Riviersonderend

We did extensive upgrades on the house in Riviersonderend. One thing we really needed to do was the floors which were rotting

Follow the process if you dare.
First you tear up the floor.

Then you have a large hole, which you line with sand, lime and plastic

Then you put bearers and joists in.

And you end up with something that looks like this

Then you lay the floor boards. This done for us by genius floor person Munier Davids

Nearly finished

After sanding and three coats of varnish you get something like this

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Riviersonderend Spring Flowers

I got to Riviersonderend to discover that Spring had indeed arrived.

Budlieha in full bloom.


Old Rose in full bloom

Jasmine in full bloom

White stink wood


Grapes in leafy splendor

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Riviersonderend Western Cape

New Floor in the Riviersonderend House

The floors in our house in Riviersonderend were rotting so we needed to replace them. Follow us on a floor replacement journey with Tertius and Reggie.
Starting the lift.


The dry rot is easily seen here:


Building the pillars and cutting the joist holes


Bitumin and plastering.

Then sand and more bitumin

Plastic and lime, then the bearers


Nearly finished the bearers

Finishing touches

And it was snowing outside.

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Murals and Graffiti around Cape Town

There is some great art on the walls of Cape Town. Here are some I found today. As I find more I will add them. More murals here.

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This one is a cheat. I actually saw it in Riviersonderend.

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Photos after rain

Sunshine after rain always makes for some really spectacular pictures.

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