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Jacqui L’Ange

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Shakira in the Year of the Horse

September 27, 2014

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A new person falls in love with Kirstenbosch …
This juvenile somber greenbul flew into my cabin This juvenile somber greenbul flew into my cabin window glass. I ran out to find it stunned. Picked it up and checked for injuries, then let it sit on my hand for 15 minutes recovering its senses and balance. Birds are perfection. #wildthing #bulbul #greenbul #birdlife #featherpatterns
Sometimes a girl just needs a power tool. #shaping Sometimes a girl just needs a power tool. #shaping
Today in 1592, the Falkland Islands were first sig Today in 1592, the Falkland Islands were first sighted. (Thank you #DailyMaverick for that Fact of the Day.) I visited the Falklands in 2017, en route to Antarctica, and bought this coffee mug, because I am obsessed with wolves, and was writing about them, and it has a drawing of a Warrah, a wolf indigenous to the islands. There is also a quote from Charles Darwin, who passed through there in 1834 on his Voyage of the Beagle. He wrote: “… it cannot, I think, be doubted, that as these islands are now being colonized, before the paper is decayed on which this animal has been figured, it will be ranked among those species which have perished from the earth.” He was right. The last Warrah was shot outside the cook-house door at Fox Bay West in 1873. It was the first known canid to become extinct in historical times. It will not be the last. #saddestcoffeemugever #coffeemughistory #coloniallegacies #whathavewedone #warrah #extinctionrebellion PS there’s a Warrah in my forthcoming book, ‘The Wolf Siren’, which I almost called ‘The Last Warrah’…
Baby keurboom trees! (Virgilia divaricata) Grown f Baby keurboom trees! (Virgilia divaricata) Grown from seeds harvested from trees I planted 💚 #futureforest #nextgeneration
Supper. #homegrown #yum Supper. #homegrown #yum
Gate. #woodgate #aloes #sunset #home Gate. #woodgate #aloes #sunset #home
Aloe season. #june #beejuice Aloe season. #june #beejuice
Also on this day 40 years ago - I graduated from h Also on this day 40 years ago - I graduated from high school! Thanks Narendra @nnandoe for the pic 🥰 I made lifelong friends and memories at #EAB. (Escola Americana de Brasilia) #classof84 #feelslikeyesterday
Your picture may be fading, but your memory isn’ Your picture may be fading, but your memory isn’t. Happy 80th birthday, Mom. #foreveryoung #belovedbluemg
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