Making time and space for mindful writing. Monday, 6 January 2014. Washing hanging from the balcony above whips and snaps across the sun - a crazy chiaroscuro shadow play flares and fades across the kitchen wall. Sunday, 5 January 2014. The low growl of thunder in the night sounded like a distant building falling and the rain seemed like the splintering, shattering glass of all its windows. Saturday, 4 January 2014.

Visitors from 27 June 2015. Visitors Jul 2012 to Mar 2015. The Drakensberg above Maclear was burning when we arrived for field work last week. It was a typical winter veld fire that had swept through the farm land an.

The view from the villa. Laurel working on one of her many paintings. The view from an old fort on the farm. Breakfast around the kitchen table. The Zuurberg Mountains as seen from the villa. The view from my room. A view across surrounding countryside. The turnoff to the Zuurberg Pass.