The simple things matter - a lunch under a tree on a summers day with family. Bliss.

Jill and I have had been wanting to go for ages, to the Leafy Greens Cafe. Jill is a vegetarian and I enjoy a good vegetarian meal. We had ...

What a wonderful day. Got home exhausted but felt great. This is a great reserve to walk/hike at. There are many people and some are fast...

Went along to the Rhino and Lion Park with another group of friends. Always a great day out, I would recommend it. Better than a zoo. Great ...

Started pottery classes with Digby this year. Having a lot of fun. Hand work at the moment, and Digby is teaching me the wheel. I have made ...

For so many years I have been wanting to go to Mountain Sanctuary Park. Friends that went and raved about it have divorced while I am still ...

Early one Saturday morning we leave for Dinokeng.  Honestly, about 6kms to go and the traffic is diverted off the highway because of an ac...

Last Friday we started the weekend with an evening braai, as we say in South Africa: tjop en dop . Lovely to sit outdoors and chill.

To tell you the truth I had nothing in the house for breakfast and didn’t want to sit indoors at a restaurant so we took ourselves off to th...

It was a family outing to the Rhino and Lion Park this past Sunday. It's still winter, so a chill in the air but not a cloud in the sky...

All is calm and quiet on Saturday morning while a horse, with crazy eyes, is grazing in the field ;-)

Up the next morning, Sunday, and off to hike at Moreleta Kloof Nature Reserve. The sun was out so it is hot, and it's in Pretoria, so ho...

You know how you drive past a place and you think: I should go there some day and have a look. Then years pass, but one day you do it, you f...

Some moments on the drive down. I would also have stopped for the single sunflower on the side of the road, the man relaxing under the tree,...

We couldn't face another full weekend of DIY, so we went to a place, close to home, where the wild things are ;-) I love the wat...