4NA Unit 5 "World Enough" Summary

When you drive at night from Cape Town city centre into its suburbs, there's a scent that hits you as you get to Kenilworth, a sweetness in the aur that spills from our gardens into the street.

• Yes.

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It's an old suburb full of Victorian houses with large gardens, not yet as subdivided as those areas closer to the city.

• Yes.

• No.

Our house has an oak tree so big you can see from the top of Table Mountain.

• Yes.

• No.

It houses the usual suspects: pigeons, squirrels, and neighbourhood cats.

• Yes.

• No.

Occasionally it attracts the more exotic.

• Yes.

• No.

Once there was a guinea fowl, who roosted there, filling the evenings with its strange chirping calls.

• Yes.

• No.

Another time, an ill-tempered peacock make the tree his home for the night.

• Yes.

• No.

Kenilworth is pretty established, but I remember in Johannesburg, back in the 80s when we lived in the new suburb of Sunninghill.

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• No.

A place where the wilderness was not quite bred out yet.

• Yes.

• No.

The lawns were still being coaxed out from the veld and paper thorns were a feature of any barefoot venture.

• Yes.

• No.