UNDER THE MILKWOOD

Today, we all live in the “global village” that Canadian professor Marshall McLuhan first spoke about in the ’60s. That’s why people like me can

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

In my former life, I had a “proper” job and tried my best to be a decent mother (mothers are always full-time, no matter what

These late autumn days and nights are decidedly chilly, and soon, perhaps even tonight, we’ll make our first indoor fire of the year. The garden

The sign at the side of the dirt road should be warning enough: seedlings are sold here “wholesale to farmers”. But I want seedlings badly

Girl fairy helper is blowing out the candles on her birthday cake – she is four – when she spots him. “Buck,” she says.

Usually, we buy three newspapers a week: the Mail & Guardian on Friday, the local Daily Dispatch on Saturday, and the Sunday Times on, well,

On weekends, V likes to get busy in the kitchen. It’s his “down-time”, he says. He picks whatever chillis he can find in the garden

Easter eggs, Swiss chocolate and a house (and garden) oozing with family from all over the place are not the only joys at this time

It’s as I am reaching for the chives that I detect, out of the corner of my eye, a slight movement on the fence