By Pete Guaron | Opinion
(That’s Garfield’s motto. It’s OK – we share! And I bet none of you expected this, after the two posts on tree bark that Lad and I just gave you!) I regularly visit a friend of mine in the next street every afternoon. And this particular day was no different. My pup [? – she’s […]
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By Dallas Thomas | News
A fire in a heritage masterpiece and three personal views on loss.
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
You may be aware that we’ve been besieged in the Kogelberg region, by huge veldt fires since New Years Eve. The area is a United Nations Biosphere – the biodiversity is believed to be greater than anywhere else on the planet; more than 1500 distinctly different forms of flora can be found in […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
…to this Two weekends ago, we sat in our hotel in London, waiting for a phone call that thankfully, never came. Our house sitter had rung earlier in the day to tell us that a runaway veld (bush) fire and the seasonal southeasterly wind had teamed-up to produce a conflagration that was […]
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By pascaljappy | News
This was our first warning. The sound of sirens and rotations of a chopper made us look for signs of smoke or worry about a serious road accident. Both wild fires and road casualties are unfortunately a regular part of life in this neck of the woods. 4 years ago a huge fire […]
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