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Fifteen minutes later, the protest had dwindled to a few dozen demonstrators corralled outside the county courthouse.

For the Test-playing countries outside the so-called 'big three', attendances for matches have dwindled and broadcast revenues are considerably smaller.

Officers forced protesters several blocks up Temple Street, occasionally firing less-lethal munitions and shoving people, but the crowd had dwindled to less than two dozen by that point.

A friend of Tiger's from Stilfontein, who only wants to be identified as Ayanda, tells me they used to share food and cigarettes before supplies dwindled.

And when the time comes — when the crates of tomatoes start to dwindle and I feel that first late-summer shiver in the air — I’ll settle on a recipe.