Uh oh, it's 11 am and our new next door neighbours have turned on their massive air fryers and the delightful aroma of garlic, peri peri prawns and chicken is filling the air! Yum yum, how are we supposed to diet with that glorious smell wafting through the garden and into the house
For 45 years HeeHoo and I have lived in our little house in Suburbs. It has grown, improved, remoulded and shaped our lives. Yes, a suburb called 'Suburbs'!!
But as we are so close to the Bulawayo CBD we have now been zoned from residential to business living. All around us restaurants, cafes, hotels, accounting firms, banks et al have materialised, some using the beautiful existing old Cape Dutch styles, the colonial homes with pillars and wrap-around verandas, and some blossoming into modern glass and aluminium entities.
I have tried all sorts of ploys to keep HeeHoo's mind off the divine fragrance, by cooking strong smelling curries and spicy bobotie, to keep him away from scaling the wall, but an easier route would be to book our favourite permanent table in the corner!
'How lucky are we' I ask you with tears in my eyes We have the Mozambik Portuguese restaurant over the back wall, the Shangri-La Chinese Restaurant with Sweet and Sour Chicken on the same block across the road, and the Bowery Restaurant and Hotel two blocks away with that fabulous Shakshuka Breakfast!!. And then there is Costas just across the main road but thank goodness there is a Padel Court very close by where we can work off those extra kilos!! Hard to resist the temptations all around us.
To date we have resisted making a small door through the wall to the Mozambik, but the staff at the restaurant all say, giggling, that they will be quite happy to send takeaways over the wall!