Crawling is the Journey
Three years ago, when our journey started, Colin and I set out to build OUR house. What do you have in mind, Colin asked. Now, that coming from Colin is a bit of a loaded question. Like really? How am I supposed to know what can be built on an impossible mountain erf with no […]
Do any of you remember Glenda Kemp? She was that Boeremeisie, turned Vixen, who dared to remove not only her bikini top, but also the bikini bottom – ever so inappropriately, and then to add shock to horror, she danced with ‘n Luislang (Python), draped around her neck. Shame, poor Glenda. As a young girl […]
The number three. If you were to ask Aunty Google about this number, she will tell you that three is a natural number that comes after two, and before four. I sometimes wonder if some clever person out there is getting paid for telling us things that we all know. Really. It comes after two? […]
Neighbours. That collective noun we use to refer to the people next door, or maybe across the road. They are the people one would bump into on your way to work in the mornings or have a chat with over the fence on a Saturday afternoon. Sometimes, one has very good neighbours and they will […]
Fire. I had to move to the Western Cape to appreciate what a real fire is. You know the ones you see on TV, where they are just so long, burning so high and with such ferocity that Fire Fighters can’t get close to them? The Western Cape is notorious for fires. The local government […]
This week it will be 4 years since the inception of our Exit Plan. This is the plan that was concocted up in that week when Colin and I decided to have a short mid-winter get away. Now, this was quite a milestone for us. It was our first holiday, on our own since our […]
Herman Charles Bosman, one of my absolute favourite authors, wrote stories based on a character called Oom Schalk Lourens. Mr. Bosman (the author) was sent to the Marico district as a teacher back in 1926. His character, Oom Schalk on the other hand, was a farmer and he originally came from what was then the […]