Oil Wells Pumping In My Living Room
Justice Edwin Cameron, retired Constitutional Court judge and Chancellor of Stellenbosch University shared gentle messages at a beautiful celebration of graduates two weeks back.
Marmite In The Grocery Cupboard
When both we, and the abundant bird life, have stripped our fig trees, we know that the seasons are a changing.
A Kind Word
Last week I took a few pics, to help with directions, for those trying to find Casa di Simonetta. Adine is a hamlet in the centre of Chianti, consisting of a handful of properties
I Think I Did Not Do So Badly
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God (2021) is an autobiographical drama about growing up in Naples. The title refers to the history of soccer. The movie references a visit by Federico Fellini to Naples to shoot his next film. Fellini is alleged to have expressed that the only use for movies, is a distraction from reality because “reality is lousy”.
Let’s Start a Brand New Story
Clergyman and author Fergus Butler-Gallie’s piece on humour, for Monocle, caught my eye this weekend.
The Centre Will Not Hold
The Centre Will Not Hold (2017), produced by the late Joan Didion’s nephew Griffin Dunne, is an interview documentary that can be watched time and again. Joan Didion’s wisdom always inspires. Writer and art critic Hilton Als says, “The weirdness of America got into her bones and came out on the other side of a typewriter”.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Monocle’s Chiara Rimella is the source of my 2022 commitments. On Christmas Eve she shared that “Ultimately, it’s the things that meant the most to us that will stick. And if there’s one lesson that we should have learnt in 2021, it’s to embrace the things that really matter to us – and not to fret about the rest.”
From What Remains
The Michaelis School of Fine Art 2021 Grad Show has now closed. You can view the art works of the fifty two graduates online, a privilege to visit and a privilege to revisit here at home.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest is a (hard to say) word that I have learnt from art reviews. It is commonly defined as “a manuscript in which later writing has been superimposed on earlier (effaced) writing. In other words, a palimpsest is a multi-layered record.
Black Olives
In April 2020, when Wildekrans Country House’s olive team was safely at home, our family of four were left to harvest the one hundred odd trees planted by us twenty years ago.
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