Kitchen Garden: If music be the food of love, play on

By Susan Parsons
February 16 2021 - 12:00am
Kitchen gardener Pip Thompson with a harvest of zucchinis and tomatoes. Picture: Elesa Kurtz
Kitchen gardener Pip Thompson with a harvest of zucchinis and tomatoes. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

It was a thrill to visit the enticing garden of Pip Thompson and Tim Meyen in Ainslie and hear him playing Romanian dance music on a cimbalom. The couple are musicians - Pip is a violinist - and, for years, the sound-spill with both of them practising in the house was difficult. So they built a wooden studio in which Tim could practise and also to rehearse with their Romanian band Super Rats.

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