the corner office

My sister's out from the UK for a bit. She arrived at Jhb International this morning, we went through for visit/breakfast, and then saw her onto a plane down to Durbs to visit the family down there. She'll be back up here on Wednesday. Can't wait.

On the way home Ronwen needed to find some sewing pattern, so we popped into the Oriental Plaza for the first time in ages. I was mortified, every single tree in the parking lot has been butchered and had its branches cut off. Why? I'm a bit Dogmatix-ish when it comes to trees; I'm near traumatised. Not just that, but it was butt-ugly too, with these tree skeletons all over the parking lot, and not a whit of shade. Why on earth did they kill all the trees?