What do you think this is?
...and this?
In reverse order, this last one is a bus shelter, with two single bricks knocked out at eye level, presumably for use as peep holes when it's raining.
The second one is a letter box, not a kennel or the smallest house in Cape Town!
In fact, as I jog round the neighbourhood I notice some really interesting and creative letter boxes. Few homes have a regular letter box in the door, like in England, either because they have gates or to save the postman walking down the drive. Here are a few of the most quirky ideas...
...a converted milk churn...
...a concrete structure...
...a little house...
...a piece of plastic pipe... (which the paperboy hasn't used!)
...a barrel...
...a (very small) hole in the wall...
...and an untidy collection of metal boxes.
This last one is situated just outside the main gate of our apartment block and contains our box (number 30).
A previous occupant must have lost the key one day and prised open the door. Now it doesn't lock and we have not bothered replacing the padlock, like most of the others. Fortunately we don't receive much mail.
On the other side of the white wall is another gate, which is the exit gate. On Saturday a removal van got stuck trying to enter through that gate...
After a great deal on shouting and maneuvering, it backed out again, leaving chunks of rendered concrete scattered over the ground. Then all the loading took place in the car park, outside.
So, to the first , which I'll repeat here...
It is a model of an African bush house, made from a telephone directory. The roof and sides are constructed by folding each page in a certain way. Eddy, the electrician who's been working with Andy, makes these as a hobby. I was fascinated by the way the dark lines appear, demonstrating the uniform layout of the book. Eddy gave us this one, as a gift - I fear that it will be too heavy to take home!
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Wow, fascinating!
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