Our Dolmades

Our home in Woodstock is one with an interesting history. Built by the British army in 1895, it has been lived in by Jewish, Portuguese and Malay families. Our street was a Group Areas boundary and families sold houses to each other in order to remain on the same street. When we bought the house we also inherited: a beautiful plaque of Saint Anthony (the saint of good husbands and lost causes), beneath which my Sweetheart proposed to me; an orange tree; a cutting table that has ever since b