DELORIS KOAN | I will never forget this good nature

“Please don’t mow the lawn near us from 2pm to 4pm. Our Cefani siesta tradition is 60 years old.” This is what I “texted” to Lindsay Cairns’ grandsons who continue in his steps keeping this hearthstone rest and recreation collection of wizened little thatched rondavel cottages going. There are cracks and bats and wonky tables, the triangular shaped pots which fit in a circle are still here 64 years later, and were probably put in as shiny, new marvels of 1950s or ’60s post-war industrial dom...