Summer Scrawlings 2025

Summer Scrawlings 2025

As bubbly corks fly like popcorn in celebration of a new year, it seems the perfect time to reflect on what has been and what is to come. Over 5700 guests have passed through our doors since we became the custodians of Dennehof Karoo Guesthouse in May 2021. That is a...
Spring Scribblings 2024

Spring Scribblings 2024

Currently we are feeling cheated and disorientated with the thermostat showing 37 degrees celsius one day, and 16 degrees celsius the next. As we pendulum between scorching summer highs and arctic winter lows we ask ourselves what happened to the moderate, happy...
Winter Words 2024

Winter Words 2024

Today is definitely the perfect day to be tapping out winter words – the Swartberg Mountains have just experienced a light dusting of snow, the wind is blustering, and the temperatures have plummeted. Yes please to some finger keyboard aerobics fireside. Having...
Autumn Oracles 2024

Autumn Oracles 2024

The Britannica Dictionary definition of the word ORACLE: “a person who has a lot of knowledge about something and whose opinions and advice are highly valued”. Based on the above, we can only describe The Wall Street Journal, together with Tripadvisor, as perfect...
Summer Scrawlings 2024

Summer Scrawlings 2024

Here we are, tapping out the words bang on time for our Karoo Summer Scrawlings, round of applause please for the end of newsletter writing tardiness of past! As this year culminates in a slightly cooler Karoo crescendo, we are temperature-grateful to have escaped the...
Spring Scribblings 2023

Spring Scribblings 2023

Oh dear, we seem to have missed winter! That is not to say that we omitted to notice the freezing cold, but just that we missed writing a winter newsletter. Autumn Oracles was already six weeks behind schedule, but now we have hit a new all-time tardiness low by...