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Quite excited to read another book by one of South Africa's legendary great authors.

Driftwood is the short, beautifully written last novel of the writer of the famous forest books (Circles in a Forest, Mulberry Forest and Dreamforest), Dalene Matthee. Many of her her books are set in the Western Cape in the area that can be more or less called the Southern Cape. In this book, a young boy who survived a shipwreck grew up as the son of a shepherd, but he is actually of noble, European descent. 👇

Okay, nobody else is going to understand this, but it's hilarious! The main character is looking after Prime Minister Macmillan in a deserted house by the ocean as he's writing his address to the Cape Parliament in 1960. Moses the MC says he's going to make tea and the understanding is he will serve rusks - traditional Afrikaner baked goods that are hard and dry and meant to be dipped in coffee or tea. 👇

The first Saturday morning in a very long time I'm not at the farmer's market! We had an appointment this morning which was rescheduled but I decided I would rest this morning regardless. Kids are watching a movie for a little bit... We're not doing TV in the week anymore so then I can do stuff like this on the weekend and not feel guilty! 😊

Trying to read a few pages while the eldest does ballet 👯‍♀️

Reading a bit of Afrikaans for a change. The author is one of our best and most well-known writers and this is her last novel. So far it's a bit odd... I'll see if I like it. The title means "the ones who have washed up on the shore".

I am not a fan of translations but I thoroughly enjoyed reading this! (It was originally published in afrikaans as “Die Uitgespoeldes”)
Very well translated!!!

And I received these beauties today!
DRIFTWOOD was wrapped in the gorgeous scarf and V came with the coloring calendar in the tote bag! 😍😍😍