Home-made roasted tomato soup

From a recipe found in the Ideas magazine I made the most delicious tomato soup. I deviated from the recipe by adding peppers. Baked a pull-apart bread - cheese, onion, bacon. Dunk your bread in the soup, take a bite and go to a happy place.

From bone to stone

Remembering Kippies

We used to visit Kippies in the 80s and 90s. The other night when we went to the theatre there he was still sitting outside, remember the past, although the music had died.

Kippies jazz club was established in 1987, named after "the sad man of jazz" Kippie Moeketsi. He was so called because he always had an expression of misery on his face. Moeketsi began his musical career playing the clarinet but soon switched to the saxophone. He became one of South Africa's most famous and best loved jazz musicians.

He played with many jazz greats such as Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas Gwangwa and Hugh Masekela, among others, yet he died destitute in 1983, at the age of 58, after many years of alcohol abuse. Kippies was closed down in 2005 after the building was found to have major structural flaws.

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200 squares

The tie-dye bug bit me, and bit me good. I tie-dyed 200 squares. What on earth am I going to do with them now? Ha, ha.
Of course the colours didn't turn out as I expected. The result of the dye was a surprise on every square, and I will never get the same result again.
If it's your birthday soon you might just get a throw, cushion or pillow ;-)

Another visit to Kamers

On Friday we went to see Kamers at St John's College. Smaller than I expected, and not the variety I expected but a lovely afternoon none-the-less. Of course I bought a new handbag, as always.

I know just the man who can help

My nieces wrote this figure down and presented it to me, but I don't know how much that is.
Luckily, I know just the man who can help.

Just add cement