For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves. |
The farmhouse started as a simple rectangular building with front stoep. |
Meanwhile, back on the stoep, both men are rooted to their chairs in what appears to be a catatonic stupor. |
In South Africa a stoep is a raised veranda on which you sit and watch the world go by. |
Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda. |
Beryl and her father, who were sitting on the stoep when we arrived, came out to meet us. |