A walk on the dark side

This past weekend Riekie and I (see previous post here) decided to ...

A scenic 30-minute drive

I’ve been missing-in-action for the last couple of weeks. The heat and ...

Kleinmond

In a recent post called Lessons learned in taking care of a ...

Lessons learned in taking care of a post-op patient

I recently went to take care of my mother after she had ...

I am having somebody else’s dreams

I’m going to be away from home for a while. Not a ...

If you go down to the woods today

If you go down to the woods today You’re sure of a ...

Montagu Pass – a scenic trip back in time

There are four passes through the Outeniqua Mountains which connect the small ...

7 Links: A Peek Into My Archives

I do not usually formally accept blogging “awards” I get nominated for. ...

Training a SUPERdog

From the first week we had her, I started putting a harness ...

What a handsome fellow!

Some of you may remember Hercules, the 100 kg baby featured on this blog last September. He was being hand-reared because of initial health problems and the fear that he would not make it out in the wild. At the time he was drinking 4 litres of milk (calf’s milk formula with supplements) 4 times [...]

Whales . . . what whales?

Willie and a small party of family and friends recently did The Whale Trail hiking route in the Southern Cape. Unlike the gruelling and spectacular Otter Trail (See the Here Be Dragons post) which this group hiked last year, The Whale Trail is a somewhat gentler – and more civilized – hike. It is “slackpacking” [...]

Borders and Border Posts

Something one often forgets is that country borders are arbitrary, man-made features. Often running along natural geographic features such as rivers and mountain ranges. Sometimes literally just being lines drawn in the sand after territory was fought over and claimed. Being at the tip of Africa, South Africa has a very long coastline (some 2800 [...]

Fantasy, Reality, Dreams – Part II

A guest post by Skadhu from Microfishing In The World Pool. Did you miss Fantasy, Reality, Dreams – Part I ? To recap, Skadhu started discussing in her first post the assumptions which are made about gaming and gamers including: Gaming is bad for you because you’re always sitting at a computer. Gamers are dangerously [...]

Fantasy, Reality, Dreams – Part I

A guest post by Skadhu from Microfishing In The World Pool After I commented on her post talking about her experience with video/online gaming, Lisa very kindly asked if I’d be interested in writing a guest post about computer games and fantasy vs reality, or maybe games vs reading, or maybe… well, games and gaming [...]

A cuckoo in the nest?

My recently acquired hobbies of blogging and photography have made me far more aware and curious about what is going on around me. Especially in our garden and out on our walks. About a month ago I saw a “new” bird in our garden. By “new”, I of course mean that it was one I [...]

What are the odds?

We all have broken an egg and found two yolks inside, but what are the odds of finding twin yolks in fifteen out of a tray of eighteen eggs?  That has just happened to us, and has me wondering WHY? Do they all come from the same hen – with a history of twins in [...]