It’s the new year and we have cleaned up, packed the decorations away and have made plenty of resolutions about getting fit and eating less and being more mindful… How long do these resolutions last? Probably not long enough to really get much attention but cleaning up certainly works well in our household. We have […]
Happy New Year! Here’s to love, joy, peace, kindness and mindfulness. It’s the season to clear the clutter, clean the slate and start afresh. Our children have had to clean their rooms. There was to be no Smoking Dragon Festival until the chores had been done. This seems to be the only way to get
What happens when your life is pretty much in the identical zone as it was 3 years ago? And, it looks like you may remain the same rut for another 15 years? It’s definitely time to find space for growing. So, this past year we decided to get a little tutoring and try and grow
Cavern Hotel, Drakensberg. With: Elsa Pooley and Gillian Condy. October 2017Written by : Jenni Saunders Turning 50 has some perks. You get gifts, and mine was six blissful days in the Drakensberg learning botanical art with legends Elsa Pooley and Gillian Condy. This was a dream come true, as a full time working mom, just
We have 3 children and have tried hard to make them love the outdoors. We always encouraged playing in the garden and when they were very little we urged them to play in the rain and splash in the puddles and when our OCD boy whined “I wet, I wet” we helped him to calm
There is excitement on this side of the valley; The Cavern has been awarded Best Community Impact Award by the Business Excellence Forum. There is much to smile about and much to be proud of! Sadly we weren’t able to attend the dinner in the City of Gold but our dear cousin from Montusi Lodge,
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Some of our staff were quoted in a recent report on the 15 June Meteor by the Astronomical Society of South Africa. The image below is from a Meteorite crater in 2014 in South America, and was not caused by this recent meteor, but it does show what a small meteorite can do when it
Our social (with a touch of serious) Lawn Bowls Competition has been happening for-e-v-e-r. And, it rolls around quite quickly. This year we held our tournament in October. Much earlier than previous years but Hilton had installed a pump at Charleswood Dam and so we could water even before the rains came. The greens were
My mum’s brother passed away recently. It is the finality of death that does make us all stop and reflect. There will be no more conversations, no more arguments, no more teasing and no more laughs. It’s just the memories we get to hold onto. And, this finality makes us want to love a little
Run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread man! Well, there were Gingerbread men and Tortoises this weekend. It’s been a spectacular couple of days of running. This is the 4th Runtheberg and once more it has been an incredibly well orchestrated event. There were approximately 550 runners, joggers,
