Being close to nature – especially walking through it – is the number one way that I sustain myself. It clears my busy head, fills
Category: Ambles
A Durban thrift adventure
Durban was always going to be my big challenge a mere four-something months into my year of not buying new clothes. A visit to my
In search of the lemonwoods
Up. The thin path winds through the forest, up and up the mountain. And we keep going. V and I are searching for the grove
Back where it began
Almost 30 years ago, V and I spotted each other for the first time. We were students at Rhodes University in Grahamstown at the time,
When the wind blows
When life deals you lemons, the saying goes, make lemonade. In the Eastern Cape, we have our own version: when it’s windy, fly a kite.
When freedom is normal
It’s Saturday on Freedom Weekend. My body is tired after this back-breaking work of digging out weeds, grass and other invasive stuff from the aloe