I had now to down tools for a while and concentrate on Irma's wedding dress, as the wedding was just around the corner. But as most of my seedlings were in, all I had to do at the moment was to wage my war with all the beasts that were forever on the look-out for a tasty morsel. The moles, my biggest headache, was the most destructive, and if they destroyed my crops like the snails and peacocks for something to eat, I could have forgiven them more readily, but as their tunnels caused my plants to wither and die, I hunt them down, actually I have never caught one of the wee pests. Nina had ordered a kind of a tunnel thing with two swing doors that swings only to the inside, allowing the moles in, but not letting them out again, from China, and I was very hopeful when I inserted this contraption in one of the busiest tunnels.
One thing I can say about moles is that they might be blind, and might be living underground, but stupid they are definitely NOT! I waited for a few days before checking on this wonder device, but could cry from disappointment to find that not even one mole tried to get in, and was aghast at their inteligence that made them dig a new tunnel next to the Chinese wonder mole catcher!
All was set for Irma's wedding, and friends and family from all over came for this big event, and everyone was so happy for her, as we never thought that she would find someone else one day. She is so full of bally nonsense, and one after the other nice man was sent off on his own business because either his hands were too small, or his feet too podgy, or his brows not bushy enough, and the one poor guy was sent on his way because his car had mag wheels, which she hated!
In the meantime she had brought up two beautiful of face, but horrendous in their puberty attitude daughters and the strain of trying to cope with her work, and with the two teenagers was kind of making her a bitty short tempered, but then she met Karel! He was bushy browed, which she loved, and he had big but slender hands, wore a size eleven shoe, and he had no car with mag wheels. As a matter of fact, he had no car at all, not in South Africa anyway, as he was doing a Body Stress Release course, and was staying with Leanette, a dear friend of Irma, who gave one look at the bushy brows, and decided that this was the perfect man for her friend!

The unsuspecting Irma was invited for dinner and a sleep over, and she was bowled over completely on seeing this being that had just about all the physical attributes that she wanted in a man. During the meal she found him soft spoken, but not a walk over, and she came home very much in love, but not knowing how this Belgian man felt about her.
She met him by accident a few days later in the Mall, and she was over the moon when she noticed his face lite up on seeing her, and she invited him for dinner there and then. Until today we are still laughing when Irma talks about their first date, when after dinner they were sitting outside watching the sun go down over the mountains, when he looked at her, and said: 'You have lovely teets!' Irma states that she almost fell off the low wall she was sitting on at this man's audacity, and she was quite put out, when he realized that he must have said something wrong, and looked at her helplessly, and that is when she suddenly realized that what he meant was that she had lovely teeth, his English not being too good!
 She was much relieved, as she really liked this guy, and did not want to send him away because of lecherousness!
He went home at the end of his course, but came back for Xmas, and then Irma went to visit him, and the next thing I knew he was in South Africa to stay, and soon learned to barbeque, but that is another strange story! Being a sculptor, he didn't need to get a job outside, as he could work anywhere! And now they were getting married!
In the top photo Karel was cooking lunc at their house they bought in Krakeel, which was as yet not fit to live in, and the kitchen having been ripped out!