The 19th May was our paternal grandmother’s birthday. The Big5Hike has always landed close to this date and incidentally it was on her 103rd (heavenly) birthday that we did our first Big5 fundraiser. And our target was R103 thousand rand. Ruth has always been my ultimate warrior. She was widowed after 13 short years of […]
It’s 2023 and it feels as though we go from one crisis to the next. There seems little reprieve from the bashes and it’s hard to keep positive and upbeat. Surround yourself with positive people, take a walk in nature, shut out the gloom. All such good advice but properly difficult at the moment. How
We had typical summer weather, mostly sunny for morning walks, stormy in the afternoons. All the migrants have arrived, even including a Willow Warbler – unusual at this altitude. Several Violet-backed Starlings spent much of the days picking over the trunk of a Dais tree right in front of the garden balcony. It looked as
