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Ramblings at a bar

Hello blog,

I am at Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, looking forward to a gig by Amanda Palmer. A bucket list event that I am insanely privileged to tick off.  There have been lots of thoughts going through my mind and now is as good a time as any to get them out 🙂

There was a tragic shooting in Parkland, Florida, United States on Wednesday. 17 people were killed. I have been blown away by the response of the teenagers affected. I am not afraid for the next generation. We just need to not fuck things up too much and then support them in their actions and problem solving. Teenagers and young adults blow me away.

I have been thinking a lot about grief lately. How it becomes a part of you. How the nature of the pain changes to be less engulfing, and then now as I write this. I miss my dad acutely. There is a rugby match on the television in the wine bar and I miss my dad. We often watched the rugby with him. I have barely watched since he passed on. It hurts too much, it brings in some acute grief.

South Africa got a new president on Thursday. I am glad that the Democratic Alliance didn’t force a secret ballot. I am not a huge fan of the DA at the moment, it would be lovely if they stopped grandstanding and did some work. I wonder if crime is going to improve under Cyril Ramaphosa…I wonder if Jacob Zuma knows the number of people murdered on his watch.  I wonder if Cyril Ramaphosa will. I wonder if we will become less angry as a country. I wonder if our politicians can pull together to defeat DayZero in Cape Town. The people are doing well. I am impressed at the water saving efforts at Spier hotel. I do think pilots / flight attendants should make an announcement about the drought on landing in Cape Town. Reminding people to save water.

I worry about the inhumanity to one one another and am glad to see small acts of humanity and connection.

I finally saw wild dog on our trip to Kruger National Park last week. I am saddened by how inaccessible our national parks have become…they used to be much more affordable. But I was given hope (which is the thing with feathers) when I saw two black teenage girls posing for a photo in front of a statue of three old white men who founded the Kruger National Park and when I heard a young white lady speaking fluent Zulu in the shop at Skukuza.

I took two taxify’s today (A South African alternative to Uber). I love chatting to cab drivers, such interesting perspectives. I stopped using Uber because of their failure to care for their people in the US. When I chatted to my drivers today both of them felt like the company’s didn’t care about them. Only about their commissions. One of the drivers drove for both Uber and Taxify. He thinks that neither care about their drivers but Uber is safer to drive for, allowing drivers to cancel more trips and showing whether the pickup is a cash pickup or not. I did my first cash trip today when the driver was panicked about not having enough petrol to get back from dropping me at the airport. We spoke about kasi boys and kasi girls, he said he didn’t think he wanted a relationship with a kasi girl and said thank you for not judging him. I told him I don’t have enough energy to judge that type of thing. I suppose there is an advantage to having been so sick.

It’s half-time in the rugby now and I remember my dad commenting on how he preferred the much shorter interval in rugby compared to soccer.

And that’s some rambles done 🙂

 

Love and rambling,

Trisha

17 Feb 2018 by Trisha Cornelius

Filed Under: Miscellany Tagged With: Amanda Palmer, crime, personal, random musings, random snippets of my life, South Africa, the real South Africa

Random scenes from an ordinary day

Hello,

The year has certainly flown by and I am looking forward towards 2013. I am not one for resolutions as a general rule but I have been reading the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey and by happenstance I ended up writing a personal mission statement last night which is probably as close as I will get to a new year’s resolution.

I did however have the opportunity to take some pretty typical snapshots from my life today and so I present to you today’s random scenes:

Electra (Black and White Cat) drinking in the basin
Nothing like some fresh water to start the day.
Riaan holding algae
“I went fishing and this was all I caught”
Fish swimming in a fish pond
A touch of zen

Love and happy new year,
Trisha

31 Dec 2012 by Trisha Cornelius

Filed Under: Miscellany Tagged With: Electra, Nature, pets, random snippets of my life, Riaan

Snapshots from an urban jungle

To say that I am not the most diligent gardener would be a bit like saying the moon is a large rock, true, but rather inaccurate, I am a terrible gardener. So when I looked out my study window and saw an explosion of roses I was rather delighted. So I present you with snapshots from our urban jungle:

Rose bush among a rather neglected garden
The jungle at the bottom of the garden
A close up of a rose bush that has run wild
Running wild and pretty
Pink flowers
We have an impressive collection of weeds, just like this one.
A close up photograph of an agapanthus after an afternoon rain shower
A bonus agapanthus
Love and our urban jungle,
Trisha

30 Dec 2012 by Trisha Cornelius

Filed Under: Miscellany Tagged With: Nature, photos, random snippets of my life

Snapshot: 28 December 2012

I finished reading the Wee Free Men today and was tickled pink (again) by the scene in which Rob Anybody and the toad have the following exchange.

‘Visne faciem capite repletam,‘ said the toad. ‘It was the best I could do in a hurry, but it means, approximately’ -he gave a little cough- ‘Would you like a face which is full of head?’
‘And tae think we didna know legal talkin’ was that simple, said Rob Anybody. ‘We could all be lawyers, lads, if we ken the fancy words! Let’s get them!

Since I began training Echo and Fudge years ago I have become somewhat interested in Skinner’s theories of behavioural conditioning as they form the basis of the principles of clicker training. So perhaps that’s why this particular quote in the Seven Habits of Effective People resonates  so much with me:

Between stimulus and response, man has the power to choose.

And finally, a real snapshot taken a few minutes ago (with a camera that doesn’t have a flash, so deal with the bad light) illustrating that it is, indeed, a dog’s life.

It's a dog's life
It’s a dog’s life

Love and snapshots,
Trisha

 

28 Dec 2012 by Trisha Cornelius

Filed Under: Miscellany Tagged With: echo, pets, random snippets of my life, Terry Pratchett

Just another drive in South Africa

South Africa is a beautiful land of contrasts and contradictions. Yesterday, Riaan and I had a mini road trip to collect a fish tank, it’s stand and some lights (which are apparently completely awesome, I still don’t understand why, but will concede that they make the fish look prettier.)

On the last patch of the trip when I saw the pigs loaded in the back of the bakkie (pickup truck) I remembered that I had my trusty little Kodak zi8 in my handbag and so I give you some photos of just another drive in South Africa.

Pigs in a pickup
Sometimes, our public transport is not the most reliable…
Contrast: Luxury vehicle driving past an informal settlement
Livestock on the side of the road. I love the dog supervising (left in the photo)
The remnants of a mine dump. I remember this gold mine dump when it was still intact.

Love and photos,
Trisha

4 Nov 2012 by Trisha Cornelius

Filed Under: Miscellany Tagged With: photos, random snippets of my life, South Africa

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