The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

From Alexander McCall Smith's series about Botswana ladies who detect:

'...it is important that there should be places where not a great deal happens because such places remind us that life is not entirely and exclusively made up of exciting or significant events.  Every life needs spells of calm, every life needs expanses of time when noting much occurs, when one may sit for several hours in the same place and gaze upon static things, upon some waxen-leafed desert plant, perhaps, or a patch of dry grass.  Or a group of cattle standing under a tree for the shade, the slow flicking movement of their tails the only indication that the are animate beasts, not rocks; or a sky across which no clouds, or perhaps only the merest wisp of white, move.'