Suurlemoen | Chapter 25 | English Summary

Suurlemoen deur Jaco Jacobs

Chapter 25: Die Taal van Tuinkabouters

Tiaan arrives at Liezl’s house on Sunday afternoon and feels stupid. He doesn’t think her parents know exactly what she’ll be doing because she said something about homework. They go to the backyard and Tiaan notes that it is very nice, complete with a swimming pool. He pulls his notebook out of his bag and Liezl comments that he’s probably the only guy she knows who takes a backpack with him everywhere he goes. Tiaan can feel himself blushing. He tells her that it’s for his camera – if he needs to take a nice photo, he always has it on-hand. He’s been taking pictures for two

years. Liezl brings drinks and Tiaan jumps up to get the tray from her. He can see Liezl’s mother looking at his notebook and pen, as if she suspects that they’re not really doing homework. Tiaan thinks about how different Liezl is when she is singing as opposed to any other time. She tells him that she likes his songs; she didn’t have much hope for the band before but now she is quite excited. She asks if he has any other ideas but he can’t quite show her anything yet. She calls him weird. She asks him if he could take a picture of anything, what it would be. He says Katy Perry jokingly. She says that she feels that writing lyrics and photography aren’t too different from each other.

She asks him to look around the garden and find a subject for a photo. He chooses the garden gnome because it looks somewhat out of place in their garden. Liezl tells him that it was actually here when they moved in and she asks how he could deduce its apartness. He jokes that he has always been able to speak the language of garden gnomes. She tells Tiaan that her mother had wanted to get rid of it but she wanted it to stay and so they had an argument. She says he’d be surprised what kinds of things people can argue about with their mothers. He pretends to be listening to the gnome and tells Liezl that it told him that it really would like a new paint job. She laughs and tells him that he’s weird, again. She asks if they’ll be writing a new song about a garden gnome and Tiaan finally remembers why he was actually at Liezl’s house to begin with.



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