True Reflection

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Home Poetry Wednesday Walk

"Drudge day of shopping, why it's pensioner discount day...,
some Silvers still have pep in their step while others hang onto the shopping trolley,
going so slowly they require a chevron to warn you "I'm super slow!"

Everyone check the per kilogram cost, cash has disappeared down the hole in the bucket,
economists predict it will become worse before better!

Happy shopping on Wednesday, depresses you just paying what you have to pay!"_ My words and ramblings....!

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Swinging through 4 shops at maximum 5 on any given Wednesday, first always green grocery and a quick chat, fresh fruit and vegetables from market selected, along with my weekly fix of Samoosas freshly cooked by local Hindi lady. Some call them somosa I say samoosa, made with spicy flavoured minced beef with vegetables. Shared with Woody, lunch on my return home, yummy!

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Normal store for basics like meat, eggs, pasta, toiletries Pick n Pay is closest runaround place, already booked my freshly sliced biltong at Biltong Shop, may collect some beer and wine in special PnP liquor store.

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That is the four, the fifth is pharmacy once a month for the pills that don't make you high, just well keep you ticking over.....
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Now onto the good stuff, only added photography from the last week in the garden, the odd shots that do make me cheerful and smile.

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No photography ever taken at shops and stores as I find this a task I do not enjoy, one has to eat..., then shit it out don't forget the bog rolls also cost a lot!

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Loads of walking, none for fun this is a true reflection of what happens in the morning, the afternoon spent on Hive or walking the garden.

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This week shopping for three homes, some could not go since their driveway flushed away in recent storm most definitely not sturdy enough to allow passage in a motor vehicle.

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Dropped of groceries running up from gate to house, enjoying the company of Sarge the dog turning inside out with greetings. The other no bother as they collect from me at the house.

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All photography using Canon Powershot SX730 HS.

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Thought for Today: "A spider's cobweb isn't only its sleeping spring but also its food trap." - African Proverb

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Hello, yes it is true, it is uncomfortable to take photos in a supermarket or if you are eating, or eating or taking photos for God's sake. A little bird could not be missing in your publication haha, beautiful photos that characterize you. I agree that rare photos are worth it photograph them, is the idea.

Perhaps shopping and food are two tasks one has to perform, I find them boring! So as always will treat you to the outdoors the only way I know how 😅

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Beautiful photos, at first i was wondering how you take these awesome photos when you have bags of things you bought from the store... Then I saw these were photos taken earlier. Love all the nature photos... 👍📷

Don't think I photograph any stores, except unusual places that might interest me long enough to register it is worth a capture.

Too busy getting through at speed, no need to make one suffer more indoors masked up?

Thanks for visiting and kind comments @elizacheng

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The photos are all beautiful and worked well with the talk of shopping something I do when I have to but never for fun, infact I cringe thinking about it, so seeing the lovely natural photos kept my cringing at bay

Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)

Between food photography and shopping I doubt you will succeed getting many photographs out of me! Even cooking I do with where my mood takes me, never ask for a repeat when excellent...., I don't follow any formula or recipes.

Garden has been ultra busy with hot days, today lovely and cool at 21 deg C hope this breaks the back of summer with promise of snow up in the mountains, three hours away.

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I am the same as you with cooking, I cook based on my mood and never follow a recipe, most times they turn out pretty good, but never can repeat it exactly the next time lOL

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Perhaps that is why I don't bake too many instructions to follow!

Lol same for me baking is all about precision and one has to follow the instructions precisely so isn’t for me either

When younger son (who also cooks), feel like muffins, flat breads, crumpets or pancakes we get together to make a batch, not a regular thingy, just for fun!

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Thanks sweet Denise, I started out wanting more flowers then did another spin with amazing life in or under the plants 😂.

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Your photography is always amazing, @joanstewart! I love how you interspersed nature photos in your post about shopping. It made me smile! 😁

I have never heard of a biltong. I will have to look that up. Whatever it is, we do not have it here, as far as I know. But you have shops devoted to biltong. Fascinating!

Shops, shopping, masks, too many people, I have a planned route, I run the gauntlet as fast as possible!

Outdoors much more amazing things to see!

Biltong in USA they call Jerky, I believe tastes nothing close to the dried meat we hang here. When you find a Biltong store that supplies good biltong (which is delivered from inland farm), you become a regular they cut and prepare so it is waiting in brown paper bag to pay and go!

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I love Samoosas! haven't had it is a while...

...pills that don't make you high, just well keep you ticking over.....

😂 those are the good pills whether blue or red and long as you ticking over 🤣


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Weekly treat for lunch, mine all mine except the corners with a little meat for Woody, who is a spice addict as well!

Yup, pills the doctors give you do little at all, except feeding the pharma in money, try avoid at all costs!

Something to ponder....

"Grace Slick wrote “White Rabbit” in late 1965, song is about the war in Vietnam and the draft. The pill part is referring to the choice between protesting and being drafted." Kind of reminiscent of life again.....?

Go Ask Alice - Jefferson Airplane

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except feeding the pharma in money, try avoid at all costs!

Honestly the truth, I make sure my immune system is what I rely on which is why I make it a priority to eat healthy, I don't cook without garlic, ginger, turmeric. We should strive to rely less on pills and leave the rest to God for life.

For the beer and wine, thank you.
I will be asking Alice 🙂

I cook with a lot of garlic, ginger and turmeric as well, all fresh veg and meat soaked in salt water for ten minutes before cooking to make sure everything is clean.

Trust nothing of late....

With winter arriving always have half honey, half fresh squeezed lemon and a couple of teaspoons of Borsdruppels mixed into a small jug with lid, saves a fortune on cough mixtures, sip as needed.

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

Some old song there, wasn't on the planet then but it is taking a moment to sink in...

Loads of history around that time as well, yes Alice some advice alright, plus many other musicians spread messages in songs. 🤣

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I guess that storm is a major challenge in that area, even to hinder shopping, that's quite serious.

When the driveway cannot be driven over to exit the property, yes it is a problem that happens here every so often.

I don't enjoy shopping at all but I enjoyed your photos a lot, Joan, and like you I would never take photos when I go shopping with my wife from time to time, but if there was something interesting away from people, I would 😁
Nice and interesting post about your shopping day, Joan, and it's great that neighbours help their neighbours 😊


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Day I detest, but a chore that has to be done, yup I rush back home to try become normal every week after the shopping run!

I would never subject people having to look at what I don't find pleasing to the eye, words carry on as does the shopping, tis life!

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I can completely understand you and I'm the same - I'm happy that my wife is different and likes to go shopping 😊


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Wish I had someone who could shop around here, cooking fresh meal every day never bothers me, it is going to collect all the ingredients.

Happy Friday! !LUV !PIZZA !BEER

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Wishing you also a Happy Friday, Joan, and a wonderful weekend🌞

I will not be much online this weekend, need to get out and take photos. The forecast says it will rain, but I hope to find dry places 😉


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Thanks I'm sure your wife would love that you offering her services out, greatly appreciated 🙃

Raining here all weekend to Tuesday they say, snow up in the mountains again making me super jealous I cannot see it, also super happy the temperature should not exceed 20C for the next couple of days.

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It's so cute this monkey, I like this picture a lot.
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Cheers!

Monkeys are daily visitors to the garden, always find something to snack on!

Your photos are fantastic, @joanstewart!
They are beautiful!

Now you didn't think I was going to give you anything but fun photography LOL!

Happy Friday!

I saw a cactus in the photo. Or did I see it wrong? Do cacti grow in Africa?

Big variety of cactus and succulents over here @alechi, although South Africa has no indigenous cacti most arrived from South America, some now treated as invasive.

Succulents a different story, we have a third of the worlds variety in succulent species.

Honestly, I didn't know about African cacti. Brought from America. Now I will know!

We always learn something new, it's what makes life interesting!

Yes I hate pensioners day in the supermarket, usually a Friday round here. jesus, get out of my way.
Don't you realise at your age life is too short to dither (I am old by the way, but only in a time frame devised and forced on the populous, with their calendars and months and days, the sun rises the sun sets, the seasons pass, that's all you need to know), and why is it old men drive their cars, wearing flat caps and gloves, FFS switch the heater on if you are cold!

Rant over, great snaps great tale @joanstewart

Good chuckle had here...

Mow them down with the trolley when they cannot stand to the side, slap bang in the middle of an aisle waiting for the wheel to spin like it's the lotto!

Men with hats should be abolished from roads, woman applying make up should never leave home, danger to everyone.

I hate shopping, plain and simple.

lol @joanstewart thinks we were separated at birth 🤣

Good to know a like minded terrible twin exists up North, keep plowing on!

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haha love the poem. Inflation depressing us all. Nice to balance with some lovely nature shots especially the dragonflies. Looks like monkey is still paying the same for his dates. Maybe we should join him in nature for his free lifestyle 🙂

Thanks for visiting and appreciating the crazy life we living, yup monkey does it in style they go through the garden about twice a day, plenty to eat at the moment.

Dragonflies plentiful after rainy summer season, more than normal and nice to try capture a few via photography, not eating them yet!