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During and after our walk with @kanesnaps and Gnu the puppy. First pic is in front of a giant camphor tree, then Kane finding a bag for the porcupine skull, then Gnu cooling off in the pool where we soon joined her.

@kanesnaps found this grim skull of one of our African Ground Porcupines while we walked in the geen belt in the vicinity of Kirstenbosch yesterday. Cleaned up, it’s making a great garden ornament.

Bun staying out of the summer breeze through the open window by making rare use of this cat tower room that was once the fave of our dear departed Skitten.

And a few horizontal ones also from our first braai of summer. It feels like it’s really here now.

Some pics from our first braai of the summer, kindly hosted by @johnthevudio Swimming, good food, nice whiskey, birds and summer breezes, and loads of cute cats.

Boi’s official spring portrait We did some wild gardening today helping Nicola in her mad dash to empty out her Gran’s house of 30 years before the bulldozers come for it - rescuing a few lucky plants.

Another view showing my faithful bike loaned to me by @joydemillar We all bid farewell to her dad - a one of a kind man - today. It was quite a scene, full to bursting, with a pipe band rattling the walls. Just beyond those trees you can just make out my old primary school and the window of a classroom where I spent probably the most miserable year of my life. That teacher would have been jailed for the stuff he pulled today. But in the 80s complaining just made you a special target. ...

Caught Bun’s little fuzzy face this morning next to my old Fuzzface.

The Mouse is now firmly ensconced in my dad’s house. And she’s living up to her name/job-title as no mouse has been seen within since her arrival. She’s got to explore the outdoors for the first time in her life and is already in a feud with a squirrel that swears at her from a perch in the white stinkwood tree my folks planted when they moved in and now towers over the house. ...

Arum Lilly. Past its best but still worthy of a photograph. This one’s for my dear friend @sophdex today.