Crawling is the Journey
Benjamin Eisenstadt first came up with the idea of packing sugar into small disposable packets. Apparently, one day, while having tea with his wife at a cafeteria, this idea came to him, as he became annoyed at the idea of the sugar dispenser’s hole getting clogged up. Sadly, he never patented his idea, and it […]
You make my heart sing! You make everything groovy. Wild thing! Ok, you ask, what happened? Let me tell you. Driving along the other day, Colin was saying that I really need to stop writing so much about sheep and cattle. Do you want people to believe that we live rather rural? That we are […]
Speak your truth. Now that sounds like a plan that came together. The sort of thing you can say to your momentarily needy best friend. That Eureka moment, where your wisdom outweighs anything, the universe may want to contribute. But, to speak the truth, as much as I like the phrase, I had no idea […]
Driving around the Cape makes listening to the radio very difficult, for more than one reason. Firstly – and this happens most, you lose reception very easily. Just a hint of a mountain, and the radio becomes white noise. The other reason, of course is, that I have yet to find a radio station down […]
Some mornings, no – make that most mornings I wake up and the first thing to go through my mind is: what on earth made me dream that? I do have simply the most strange, irrelevant, disturbing or downright weird dreams. In fact, so entrenched are my dreams that I often re-dream the same dream […]
Exactly 83 weeks ago (yes, that is right. I number them) I set out to write my Cape Crawl. If you go back to my very first ever “chapter”, you will know that I started recording Colin’s and my journey down here. When I say journey, I am not simply referring to the road trip […]
Knysna. Now that is a town I have not been to in an awfully long time. Our last trip to Knysna was around 2000/1. Our boys were young, and we wanted to give them the experience of a plane, a train, a boat and an automobile. So, we flew down, landing at George Airport. From […]
In case you have not noticed, I love music. However, as with mankind, not all music is equal. For no specific reason at all, I do not like Whitney Houston. It is just something about her music. It has me changing radio stations. I would rather sit through twenty-five minutes of Mongolian Throat Singing, than […]
Dear Eskom, Today I write to you to say that I am sorry. You see, a year ago, I wrote a letter to the press (the letter was published), and in it, I said: “…. We bought a property in Bettys’ Bay a year ago. Our building plans have been approved, we have ticked all […]
There is a new development in our Meraki Mountain. It is called Team SS. Now, to tell you this story, I need to turn time back to 2016, because that is when the one SS met the other SS. Bear with me, I will explain. You see, sometimes, we all need a little help from […]