I am launching an attempt at writing something sensible about a Verreaux’s Eagle. None of the normal, though impressive, weight and wing length statistics. I need a new angle. A new pedestal where I can let one of the most beautiful and […]

I looked up from the driver’s seat. It was pink. Not the pink that you would expect in the wilds of Africa. Bright, neon, lycra pink.

The wearer, a young man of about 35-ish, found nothing wrong with his choice of outerwear, not […]

We drive to Hotspot. Broken terrain. Monkey thorn trees line the path. We encounter the first obstacle. Monkey thorn. About 60 years old. Split about one-and-a-half meters above the root. Branches broken and littered on the road surface.

Elephant.

This got me thinking: why […]

Velvety smooth panna cotta infused with fragrant Vanilla and Rooibos tea topped with tangy granadilla pulp.

Ingredients

• 250ml cream
• 300ml full cream milk
• ¼ cup sugar
• 6 bags rooibos tea
• 10ml Vanilla Extract/Essence
• 2 tsp. gelatine powder
• 1 litre cold water to soak the […]
  

Mud, mud glorious mud

Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

So follow me follow down to the hollow

And let us there wallow in glorious mud…

This is an extract from an old Flanders and Swann song. It is also one of the […]

I sometimes wonder about art. How we define the word, how we use art, how it defines us.

Our modern society has a love affair with art bordering on the insane. Look at a Sotheby’s auction catalogue, or better still, bid on one […]