Christmas is what you make thereof; hope you created something special. Merry Christmas.

I love the culture of family togetherness that Christmas celebrations initiate here in South Africa, but for this one, twas down to mother dearest and I to deck a table for two. Has been a quiet and special three days of disconnect [...]

Every Friday afternoon I would slip into my blue gumboots after school and walk bucket in hand to the wetlands a few hundred metres from our home. Here was my first source of income, my first vessel to choice - Arum Lilies. At one stage I had a standing order from a the local flower [...]

Had a great time on Saturday morning: Jonaskop the 2nd. An ascent of the 15km climb near our farm with a very similar profile to that of Alpe D’Huez. My father and a friend have put on this ‘invitation only’ tongue-in-cheek affair over the past two years. Small, intimate, unique, and now with a feast [...]

These are before and after photo’s by my sister Clare of the farm last week - recording the worst flooding since 1906. Crazy stuff.
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