Since lockdown, started I have been gaining weight. When we were allowed to walk or run between 6am and 8am, I started walking and managed to get up to 7.5km and then for some reason I stopped. I had two failed attempts to restart the program. I thought Monday to be the perfect opportunity to […]
We had spent a week in the Bobajaansberg Nature Reserve and Conservatory. This Reserve is constituted with about nine farm owners who removed their fences and form a nature reserve and conservatory. There are a few lodges within this area. We stayed at Izapa Bush and Game Lodge’s manager’s cottage that was gifted to us […]
Yesterday we approached a wildebeest walking with four warthogs (father, mother and two babies. The babies are so cute). We parked and watched for a while, and then as they moved on we continued driving. As we edged closer to them, the warthogs decided to go through a small gap in the fencing to a […]
When one sees that today is the 3rd January 2021 and that we have been in lockdown since last year, it can be a shock to realize we have been in lockdown for 283 days already and that in 82 days time, should lockdown remain (at whatever level), it will be a full year of […]
When one spends time in the bush looking at wild animals and their behaviour, it’s interesting what one will find. Naturally, one needs to be quiet and patient, for one could disturb wild animals very easily. We parked the game vehicle along a pathway next to a valley. There we were watching a single giraffe […]
In a very short Zoom session with our children in the USA and good friends in England today, the children said they were going to sing the song “All Glory Be to Christ” once their friends arrived for a potjiekos meal later in the day. The tune to this song is the same as that […]
After a traumatic year because of the coronavirus strain COVID-19, that affected every country across the planet, we arrive at the last day of the year, battered in so many ways. As we look backwards, for some there is extreme bereavement because of the loss of a loved one, some because of Covid, some because […]
We planned to do a game drive in the late afternoon. The normal driver had taken the vehicle to another lodge to pump up the tyres and got stuck coming back. He started the engine, and as soon as he released the clutch, the engine cut out immediately. I saw what happened and drove to […]
The president’s announcement to return to Level 3 lockdown was not unexpected in that something needed to be done with the resurgence of the Coronavirus, which has been causing larger damage across every aspect of society than before. Not exclusively, but as a people we have not being doing our part to prevent the spread […]
Our opposite neighbor and I were chatting for a while this morning. He mentioned three ladies known to them who died in the last few days. One died from Covid. Then there was a family who were in our church for many years until they moved to a far out, almost rural town outside Pretoria. […]