The ancients in the rain. Kitchen view. Storms and sunshine, smokey clouds, blue skies. Cooking with spice. And love. #CapeNature #LateAutumn

Shrike. Coffee beans and jazz storm A lovely weird Sunday with hard rain and sunshine. May in #CapeTown

Storm in a coffee cup The first raindrops and the piercing cold. Cape storm arriving on a Saturday in May. Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way - Joni Mitchell

Peonies I bought from a bucket by the side of the road for a few quid. My photo’s inspired by the paintings of Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750):

Gabrielle Goliath’s powerful installation, Elegy, opens as an independent exhibit at The Venice Biennale after Gayton McKenzie had prevented her from representing South Africa because it allegedly affronted his pro-Israel sensibilities. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

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Thursday. Home could be anywhere A desert road from Vegas to nowhere Someplace better than were you've been A coffee machine that needs some fixin' In a little cafe just around the bend I am calling you Can't you hear me? I am calling you - Bob Telson

Hot coffee and birdsong. Slow sun Thursday #CapeTown We the great and small Stand on a star And blaze a trail of desire Through the darkening dawn It's asking for the taking Come run with me now The sky is the colour of blue You've never even seen In the eyes of your lover - Carly Simon

About R250-million – that is how much it is estimated it will take to rebuild the historic University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Jagger Library. Read groundup.org.za/article/here... by Matthew Hirsch

Bulbul and shrike. Morning chat Wednesday rain #CapeTown

ID Card by Mahmoud Darwish www.divasofverse.com/2020/01/id-c...

At the time of its release, in April '88, Tracy Chapman's debut sounded like nothing else on rock radio. You'd hear Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, Eagles. And then, Fast Cars. It was a breath a fresh air and reminded me of Joan Armatrading's work. The whole LP has aged well and remains relevant, powerful.

Grogu. Spekboom #CapeTown

Nina Simone was disabled. A classically trained pianist, gifted songwriter and singer, Civil Rights activist, and mother, Nina Simon also had bipolar disorder that went undiagnosed and untreated for 20 years. So she suffered, and STILL gave everything as many do. #DisabilityPrideMonth #BlackSky

Sunset shrike #CapeTown

Happy International Jazz Day! An All-StarGlobal Concert in Chicago featuring Herbie Hancock, Robert Glasper, Terri Lyne Carrington and many many more artists is starting soon. Watch live:

Yesterday's winter gardening in Sunday's autumn sun #CapeTown Four seasons in one day Lying in the depths of your imagination Worlds above and worlds below The sun shines on the black clouds hanging over the domain -Neil and Tim Finn

A woman sits on the Tube. She wears a t-shirt the colour of oxidised iron and soft, chocolate-brown suede shoes. Tattooed on her bare arms are botanical drawings of plants and flowers, as they are beautifully illustrated pages in a scientific manual.

Two strangers sit opposite each other on the train. They open paperback books at the same time, as though beginning a dance.

Opposite me on the Tube, a rotund man in a tight, shiny pink jumper and terrifyingly small white shorts sits beside a man in a floral waistcoat and sage-green velvet jacket and a woman in a grey sequinned dress and large gemstone droplet necklace. I am in jeans and a t-shirt. I didn’t get the memo.

Soccer in the rain. The youth Exuberant life on the first Saturday of May #CapeTown I'm free, but I'm focused I'm green, but I'm wise I'm hard, but I'm friendly, baby I'm sad, but I'm laughing I'm brave, but I'm chicken shit I'm sick, but I'm pretty, baby - Morissette and Ballard

5pm blues The weather is overwhelmingly winter #capetown Shadows falling, baby We stand alone Out on the street, anybody you'll meet Got a heartache of their own It oughta be illegal - B, R and M Gibb

I’m working on solving today’s Metaflora puzzle, and in looking up plants on internet I found ‘Mustard and allies’. I now have this vision of Mustard heading up a sort of ‘Home Guard’ of plants dressed in camouflage fatigues, patrolling my garden at night.

They danced the Morris in the madness of No-Man’s Land on May Day 1916 and this if nothing else, should tell you that they will dance the Morris in the villages of England till the final apocalypse itself. – #CLNolan #MorrisDancing #MayDay

Beltane or Bealtaine was a Celtic/Gaelic festival held on the 1st May to mark the beginning of summer. One of the key parts of the festival (alongside massive bonfires, feasting & making merry with beer 👀) was the exchange of posies to bring good luck. Here's a Beltane posy for you from my garden 🌿

The Fairytale Language of the Brothers Grimm By Chi Luu daily.jstor.org/the-fairytal... Brothers Grimm at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #Books #Literature #Philology #Folklore

Silver linings and empty trains. Worker's Day Cold and wet Friday in #capetown

Coetzee declined because of Israel's Genocide in Gaza, apparently stating that it is impossible for any part of Israeli society — including the intellectual and artistic communities — to claim it does not share in the guilt for the atrocities in Gaza, www.ynetnews.com/culture/arti...

Platform announcer at Victoria as our train pulls away: Driver, take care of these wonderful people. People take of each other. Peace.

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” ― Terry Pratchett #TerryPratchettDay GNU Terry Pratchett

Happy 100th birthday to Harper Lee! Let's celebrate it. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, Lee achieved literary notoriety with a single book, then proceeded to publish sparingly. Check it out in our last newsletter: www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/ #books #literature

Birdsong and a star Dawn of the last Tuesday in April #CapeTown

Fever dreams and rain Flu on Freedom Day🇿🇦 Only 32 years ago. Where do we go from here? This isn't where we intended to be We had it all, you believed in me I believed in you - Rice and Lloyd Webber

One of my favorite poems for your saturday morning: A Brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert www.divasofverse.com/2013/12/a-br...

It’s Ed Murrow’s birthday. ‘No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.’

I don't know why people ask people who buy books if they will ever have enough time to read them all when no one asks the rich if they will ever spend all of their money (in a useful or meaningful way).

Sunbird's reprimand with morning coffee Fuzzy, melancholic, bitchy thoughts on a sunny cool autumn day. All you want is to be me So you can screw me up And don't give a damn ('cos I'm a) crazy Little daisy too vile to Breathe I'm everything you want Today - Skin, Cass and Ace // Skunk Anansie

Stained glass sunrise. Berg winds The last Saturday morning of April in #CapeTown, the wind spelling Sunday rain. Swerwers sonder rigting Soekers wat nooit vind En eindelik was almal maar, net kinders van die wind - Koos du Plessis

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A man walks down Oxford Street. He wears a long pink coat sewn with tiny pearls. He carries a white teddybear. The bear wears a green bow.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Sunday noir. Sunday serenity Pure birdsong, the gentle tap of drops falling from branch to leaf. A pause in the deluge. #CapeTown #AprilShowers

Swamp Bottom* 3 days of relentless April showers. #CapeTown, mid-autumn Then what have I got Why am I alive anyway? Yeah, what have I got Nobody can take away - Rado & Ragni, adapted and sung by Nina Simone *Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away