lwandile blog: the author

This food is Sigwampa. I like to cook this food cause easy, I take a spinach to the pot when is ready I take maize meal and stir in with a spoon and just cook for 30 minutes.

nic & I went for a walk on the beach at Gonubie, where I made this quick and dirty pano of Gonubie river, as it flows into the sea.

Home is where the trotters are

Building rondavals in Port St Johns

I came across this fascinating web site showcasing gardens built on vertical surfaces. It struck me as showing a desire to cover up the built environment; so turn parts of our concrete and glass environment into something more 'natural'. However, going to such lengths (even though it is relatively low tech, apart from automated watering and feeding systems) says more about our need to control than our love and appreciation of nature, to my mind at any rate.

A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop.

Yay, there are times when it seems things start to fit into place. Discovering digital artists working and living in and with the materiality of natural places is so refreshing. Specially, when some of them are your school friends.

Wray Village on Youtube may make David and i jealous of Keith and Mark (respected, HCI people at Lancaster, who helped in setting up and studying the Wifi) but only because it makes such an important contribution to ideas about community, rural places and natural disasters ....