Category: Life

  • 16 December 2025
    December holidays in a Karoo dorp can be very boring, especially one that serves a large farming community.  Some children…
  • 11 December 2025
    ...on a crazy, difficult, interesting, sometimes scary 2025, the year we turned 70. We were born in 1955 a pivotal…
  • 5 December 2025
    As the year winds down, many of us start feeling that familiar end-of-year tiredness. Not the dramatic kind. Just the…
  • 28 November 2025
    A few weeks ago I was in the shower, whilst soaping my right arm I noticed that a freckle had…
  • 21 November 2025
    A dedication to a friend….. Charlotte (cross Labrador/Sheep) came to us when she was approximately six months old.  We adopted her…
  • 14 November 2025
    My dear friends, I thought I would share “Life Lessons from Winnie the Pooh” with you. This piece is beautifully…
  • 6 November 2025
    I might have mentioned this before, writing this blog has been such an incredible experience.   Long forgotten memories of wonderful…
  • 31 October 2025
    Originally an article I wrote for Church in Community I am not ok. When are we going to stop being…
  • 23 October 2025
    Cogitating…. “to think deeply about something: meditate or reflect”. I was going to write about life as a preacher’s kid,…
  • 17 October 2025
    I don’t know why this memory came to mind, maybe because some skills are harder to learn or get to…