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...
Autumn Oracles 2023

Autumn Oracles 2023

It seems incredulous that our last newsletter centered all around the inferno of a Karoo summer as we now find ourselves bundled up in warmies, keyboard-tapping away at speed to get some warmth flowing through numbed typing digits, amazed at the change that can happen...