GOSSIP GAZETTE MAGAZINE - 1 March 2022 - Issue 5

March 2022 - Issue 5
How To Make Stepping Stones -
With A Cake Pan
“keep The Colour”. -
Garden World
‘n Aangepaste Normaal”. -
Arnold Gesels...

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Arnold gesels oor…
‘n “Aangepasde normaal”!
“Genade, hoeveel aanpassings moet mens nog maak?!” Hierdie is die woorde wat mens van ouer mense kan verwag.
Het jy al gedink hoeveel aanpassings ouer mense al moes deurgaan, wat jyself al moes deurwerk?
Jy hoef maar net by ‘n veteraan motor- of trekkerskou aan te doen om te sien hoe dinge verander het. Soms sien jy
“clips” op facebook van bv. ‘n stoomtrekker, opgedoen met ‘n verskeidenheid ploee agter hom of iewers kry jy
geleentheid om in ‘n trein te ry wat deur ‘n stoomlokomotief getrek word. As jy dan na die nuutste tegnologie kyk van
treine wat amper supersonies ry of massiewe rekenaar beheerde trekkers of elektries aangedrewe motors, dan besef
jy hoe die toneel verander het.
Stel jou voor jy skryf ‘n brief vir jou kinders oorsee, koop ‘n see l by die poskantoor, kry ‘n plakker vir lugpos, gooi die
brief in ‘n gleuf in ‘n rooi posbus en wag om te hoor hoe dit met die kinders gaan. Dit, teenoor ek tel my selfoon of
rekenaar op en het dadelik kommunikasie waar ek my mense kan sien en met hulle kommunikeer asof aan hulle raak.
Jy moes altyd kantoor toe, of skooltoe en nou kan jy alles van die huis af doen.
Dink sommer oor hoe dissipline gewerk het en hoe dit vandag lyk. My oupa het gese dat met die opstuur van sateliete
die ruimte in, die mens nou te ver gaan en sy grense oorskrei. Vandag is daar hoeveel bemande of onbemande
sateliete wat die ruimte ingaan, selfs ‘n bemande ruimtestasie.
Mediese prosedures wat ondenkbaar was om met die hand te doen word met beheerde rekenaar tegnologie gedoen.
Die eerste hartoorplanting was so ‘n stuk geskiedenis en deesdae is dit alledaags.
Jy hoef nie eers meer plate, bande of CD’s te he vir jou gunsteling musiek nie.
Jy kan moontlik binne die volgende tyd in beroepe staan wat nou nog nie eers bestaan nie.
Punt is: Verandering is deel van ons lewe, ons we reld! Dit gebeur NOU! Dit is nie net deel van ons oupas en oumas se
lewens nie. Ons moet vasbyt om by te hou.
Covid-19 het seker van die vinnigste verandering in ons lewe en we reld gebring (“Pandemie”) in die mate dat ons
gepraat het van ‘n “nuwe normaal”: Bly tuis; doen konserte virtueel; lee kantoorgeboue met werkers in hokkies by
hulle huise; inkopies wat afgelewer word; YouTube eredienste en konserte; studies aanlyn; sanitering, maskers,
afstand. Jy kan self baie byvoeg. Ons begeerte was net, veral ten opsigte van kontak met ander mense en ons
gunsteling geregte en drankies op ons gunsteling plekke en tyd: “Kan alles net weer na “normaal” terugkeer – wat dit
ookal beteken!”

Skielik het alles we e r begin verander met Covid- inentings en nuwe kennis van die Virus en variante; Die samelewing
het meer oop geraak, en ons is bly as ons ons sertifikate van inenting het. Ons kan weer vir die kinders oorsee gaan
kuier en stadig begin rugby en konserte bywoon en kerktoe gaan as ons die ree ls hou. Die maskers bly, asook die
sanitering en afstand. Daar is ‘n stoel tussen-in. Ek moet inenting sertifikate of dalk resultate van ‘n negatiewe Covid
toets wys as ek oorsee wil reis. Dalk gaan die noodtoestand opgehef word. Die kinders kan almal skooltoe gaan. Daar
het selfs meer toelaes van die staat gekom.
Dis egter ‘n “aangepasde normaal” - iewers tussen wat lankal was en wat die afgelope tyd met onder andere “lock
down” was.
Mense is bang om kerktoe te gaan of het aan YouTube dienste gewoon geraak; baie leerders en ouers verkies aanlyn
studies of gaan net soms na ‘n onderrig sentrum. Internet aankope en bestellings het deel gebly van ons
funksionering. Net sommige werkers gaan soms kantoor toe. Hospitale word weer plek vir ander siektes en gevalle
behalwe Covid. Jy kan egter steeds nie sommer in besoektye in hospitaalgange ronddrentel nie. Covid is steeds ‘n
werklikheid. Sommige aanvaar inentings - vir ander is dit die merk van die dier en mense dryf in bek- en
internetgevegte van mekaar af weg. Jy soen en druk steeds nie sommer ander wat jy graag in die verlede gesoen en
gedruk het nie. Is hulle gee nt of wat toets hulle of jy?
Ons weet Covid gaan steeds lank by ons wees, maar ons weet steeds nie hoe en met watter intensiteit. Mense gaan
minder, maar steeds aan Covid dood en ons herstel steeds van die emosionele skade van afsondering, dood en Covid
gevolge, ekonomies en fisies.
Eintlik weet ons nie meer wat is “normaal” of wat is “nuwe normaal”. Ons weet net verandering is ons deel en ons is
in ‘n “aangepasde normaal”.
Verandering, voortdurende verandering en onvoorspelbaarheid van omgewing was altyd die mensdom se deel en sal
dit ook bly. Die konstante is dat daar voortdurende verandering is.
Ek verheug my baie in die Prediker in die Bybel. Party se hy was ‘n realis, ander se hy was ‘n pessimis, ander hy was
‘n fatalis. Hy se hy het gekyk en gesien. Niks is eintlik nuut nie, alles gebeur maar weer, maar tog bly alles in God se
hand en moet ons ons steeds kan verbly binne ons omstandighede.
Prediker 3:11v: 11 God het elke ding gemaak dat dit pas in ‘n bepaalde tyd, maar hy het ook aan die mens die besef
gegee van die onbepaalde tyd. Tog kan die mens die werk van God van begin tot einde nie begryp nie. 12 Ek het tot
die insig gekom dat daar vir die mens niks beter is as om vrolik te wees en die goeie van die lewe te geniet. 13 Dat die
mens kan eet en drink en onder al sy arbeid nog die goeie kan geniet, ook dit is ‘n gawe van God.
Moenie dat die verskillende “normale” jou vreugde steel nie. Aanvaar egter die uitdaging van die oomblik. Wat God
doen is blywend.
Groete
Arnold (Dr. Arnold Smith is ‘n Pastorale Berader en Terapeut in Privaat Praktyk 0722215671)

Article March 2022
Keep the Colour
How about some bright colour in the garden through the Autumn months? The cooler temperatures are on their way and the
seasonal changes will begin to show as we make ore way to the winter. Autumn is not a season to pause while we wait for the
start of the cold and the winter varieties. Autumn has its own colourscapes to contribute to your home.
Start as soon as soon as the summer beds begin to lose the last of their blooms. Clear these away; dig over the soil and add
new compost and bonemeal or superphosphate. Soil in your containers may need topping up rejuvenation and check that the
drainage is still functioning properly.
Once the soil and containers are prepared and revitalized, there is a fantastic array of varieties of new blooms to give the
autumn and winter garden a blaze of colour to suit all areas. Once the soil and containers are prepared and revitalized, there
is a fantastic array of varieties of new blooms to give the autumn and winter garden, a blaze of colour to suit all areas.
For the sun patches choose from Dianthus, Gazanias, Verbenas, Petunias, Snapdragons and Poppies. The Primulas, Pansies,
Lobelia and Bellis Perrenis will brighten the shadier corners of your landscape.
Keep the young seedlings well fertilized with an organic 6.3.4 or 3.1.5 and water regularly until the plants are well
established. Mulching the beds is always a good idea thereby reducing the frequency of watering; and this also has the added
benefit of keeping the soil warmer through the winter months.
For more colour you can extend the flowering season of your roses well into April with an extra step or three.
You need a crop of healthy leaves to generate the energy needed for blooms and strong stems to carry them. Fertilize with a
good organic fertilizer such as Vigorosa. This also has the benefit of strengthening the branches for over-wintering
A deep watering twice a week will ensure a strong deep root base and this will boost a full top growth and a resultant crop of
autumn roses.

Keep an eye out for late season black spot and mildews. Spray early and remove all of infected leaves to make sure that the
spores do not over winter in the soil.
Enjoy this colourful time in the garden, marvel at the seasonal change in the trees and keep gardening.
For any information and general gardening questions contact Louis at Garden World or visit us on Beyers Naude Drive in
Muldersdrift.
Louis d’ Hotman
General Manager
Tel: 011 957 2046
Fax: 011 957 3214
GPS: S 26° 02.560’ E 27° 53.164’
E Mail: louis@gardenworld.co.za
Web: www.gardenworld.co.za

lime tarts
These lust-worthy tropical fruit tarts are perfect for summer
entertaining.
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups (225g) plain flour
1/3 cup (50g) icing sugar
125g cold unsalted butter, chopped
Finely grated zest and juice of 4 limes, plus 2 tsp extra zest
2 kaffir lime leaves, finely shredded
4 egg yolks, plus 2 extra egg whites
395g can condensed milk
150ml pure (thin) cream
1/2 cup (110g) caster sugar
Sliced mango and coconut cream (optional), to serve

METHOD
1.
Grease 6 x 10cm loose-bottomed tart pans. Pulse flour and icing sugar in a food processor to remove any lumps. Add butter,
extra lime zest and half the kaffir lime, and whiz to fine crumbs.
2.
Add 1 egg yolk and 2 tablespoons chilled water, then process until mixture comes together in a smooth ball. Enclose in plastic
wrap and chill for 30 minutes. Roll out on a lightly floured surface and use to line prepared pans. Chill for 15 minutes.
3.
Preheat oven to 180C. Line tart cases with baking paper and fill with baking weights or rice, then bake for 10 minutes or until
pale golden.
4.
Meanwhile, whisk condensed milk, cream, remaining lime zest, lime juice and remaining yolks in a bowl. Pour into tart cases.
Bake for 15 minutes or until just set.
5.
Whisk egg whites in a clean bowl to soft peaks. Gradually add caster sugar, whisking to stiff peaks. Pile onto the tarts and
brown with a blowtorch. Serve with mango and remaining kaffir lime leaves, with coconut cream, if using.

Becoming the Person, You Want to Be
by Marshall Goldsmith & Pieter Gruenbaum
The Wheel of Change illustrates the interchange of two dimensions that we need to sort out before we can
become the person we want to be.
The positive to negative axis tracks the elements that either help us or hold us back. The change to keep axis
tracks the elements that we determine to change or keep in the future.
A brief description of each of these options.
1. Creating represents the positive elements that we want to create in our future. Creating is the glamorous
poster child of behavioural change. When we imagine ourselves behaving better, we think of it as an exciting
process of self-invention. We’re creating a “new me.” It’s appealing and seductive. We can be anyone we
choose to be. The challenge is to do it by choice, not as a bystander. Are we creating ourselves, or wasting the
opportunity and being created by external forces instead?
2. Preserving represents the positive elements that we want to keep in the future. Preserving sounds passive
and mundane, but it’s a real choice. It requires soul-searching to figure out what serves us well, and discipline
to refrain from abandoning it for something new and shiny and not necessarily better. We don’t practice
preserving enough.
3. Eliminating represents the negative elements that we want to eliminate in the future. Eliminating is our most
liberating, therapeutic action—but we make it reluctantly. Like cleaning out an attic or garage, we never know if
we’ll regret jettisoning a part of us. Maybe we’ll need it in the future. Maybe it’s the secret of our success.
Maybe we like it too much.
4. Accepting represents the negative elements that we need to accept in the future. Most of us tend to commit
to the other three-four elements in the wheel of change with greater enthusiasm—creating is innovating and
exciting, preserving makes sense as we focus on not losing sight of the good things about ourselves,
eliminating appeals to the “do-or-die” element of our natures as we commit to stop doing things that no longer
serve us, but accepting is a more difficult pill to swallow. Acceptance is an odd player in the process of
change—it feels like admitting defeat, it’s equated by many to acquiescence. Acceptance is incredibly valuable
when we are powerless to make a difference. Yet our ineffectuality is precisely the condition that we are most
loath to accept. This truth triggers our finest moments of counterproductive behavior.

These are the choices. Some are more dynamic, glamorous, and fun than others, but they’re equal in
importance. And three of them are more labour-intensive than we imagine.
And, that’s the simple beauty of the wheel. When we bluntly challenge ourselves to figure out what we can
change and what we can’t, what to lose and what to keep, we often surprise ourselves with the bold simplicity
of our answers and can thus take significant, real steps towards becoming the person we really want to be.

How to Make Stepping Stones –
with a Cake Pan
You don’t need a fancy schmancy mold to make garden stepping stones; all you need is a non-stick cake pan! And you won’t
even ruin the pan!
I stumbled on a new – and EASIER way to make mosaic stepping stones; it’s called the indirect method and it involves contact
paper. I think these would make awesome favors or gifts for a garden wedding. Just get your maids together on a Saturday
afternoon and have a stepping stone party. They’re inexpensive to make – and they don’t require much skill.
You will need:
• Round non-stick cake pan (You could also use a heart-shaped pan)
• Vaseline
• Contact paper
• Old plates or saucers that you don’t need (I got mine at the thrift store)
• Glass gems
• sea glass (optional)
• Concrete
• marine varnish
• Mosaic Glass Cutter (Optional. I did not use of of these, but if you want more precise cuts, this is the way to go.)
• chicken wire or other type of wire mesh
• safety glasses

• rubber gloves
• dust mask
• hammer
• bucket
• trowel
• water
1. Put your safety glasses on. Place a plate or saucer inside a cloth bag or cover with an old sheet or towel, and smash it with
a hammer. If you have a mosaic glass cutter, use it instead.
2. Repeat until you have all the pieces you need. You’ll probably want a variety of sizes, as shown here.
3. Place your cake pan on your contact paper, and trace around it.

4. Cut out the contact paper circle. Remove backing and place inside pan sticky side up. Add your mosaic pieces to the contact
paper with the desired design facing down. Press each piece down so it is firmly stuck to the contact paper. Leave
enough space between the pieces so that the cement can fill the spaces in between – but don’t leave too much room.
(When I make my next stepping stone, I will move the pieces a bit closer together.)
5. Carefully lift the piece of contact paper and view your design. (This is the back of my design.)
6. If you are happy with your design, place the design back into the pan with the sticky side up. Head outdoors, put on your
dust mask and mix up your concrete according to the instructions on the bag. It will be the consistency of porridge when
it’s ready.
7. Meantime, cut a square piece of chicken wire or wire mesh to fit inside the stepping stone. This will help to support it.
Also, line the inside rim of your cake pan with Vaseline for easy releasing.

8. Don your rubber gloves and spoon some concrete into your cake pan.
9. Spread so it evenly covers your design, about an inch thick.
10. Place your piece of wire mesh onto the wet concrete.
11. Spread another one inch layer of concrete over the wire.
12. Let sit for two days. (I set mine in the shed.) When it’s ready, turn it over and tap on the back of the cake pan. It should
release easily. Slowly remove contact paper.

13. If there are holes, you can fill them with cement. You can use sand paper to smooth grooves in the cement. I took a wet
sponge and cleaned the entire area after removing the contact paper, then I varnished it with marine varnish.
14. That’s it! Enjoy your handmade stepping stone! Want more? Check out this DIY garden stone made from flagstone.

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