3-40pm
Today’s show went off well. Good to have Jack in the studio! I’m getting back into going to bed early and so have felt more awake in the morning. Yesterday morning, if I put my head on the desk at 5-30am, I would have fallen f-a-s-t asleep!
Today I left work early as Sally and Granny were going off shopping. On my way home, I stopped outside Rhodes Cottage. I let my mind wander back a hundred years and imagined the great statesman standing on his cottage steps admiring the view….
Cecil John Rhodes had opened the Simonstown Railway Station on 1st December 1890 (Source: http://www.atlanticrail.co.za/simonstown.php) , so he must have had a railway line of some description running past his holiday cottage at Muizenberg. Of course it wouldn’t have been as sophisticated as this line and there would have been no overhead wires.
This is Glencairn Beach in 1902…
Interesting hey! A large rail-mounted gun being test-fired into False Bay in 1902 from the spur at Glencairn. photo: AFRICANA LIBRARY Johannesburg. This I copied off the same website as above.
Rhodes Cottage as it stands today…
…which is now a museum…
Next time I must go in!
Back home, Sally and Granny were preparing for their outing. I arrived and off they went…
They went to the nursery, had lunch and went on a merry, plant-buying spending spree…
I love this one…of the impatiens family, it’s called a double rose…
As I type, they are happily planting them all in the patio flower bed! It’s going to look great!
Hosea 6:3 Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge Him. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
Yep, it’s time to acknowledge the Lord.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga x 🙂
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