The Karoo – vast, endless, isolated and humbling – is perhaps the one place where you can find true freedom. Test this by visiting a far flung farm. You’ll find cellphones don’t work there, nor do faxes and telephones can’t constantly haunt you.  As you turn off the highway onto a gravel road that vanishes […]

I haven’t gone for an earth-nap under the “lang bome” I am still very much alive and well. Can’t say the same for my trusty old computer that was an extension of my brain – perhaps much more my brain that I gave it credit for.   It took just one lightning flash – like a…