Van Stadens

Slave driver

Keith’s shifts worked out for a change so we had a full Wednesday contingent today, all five of us! We happened to arrive at the same time, this means we were early and the hacking contingent disappeared to do some steep slope work. Ellie wanted to finish her varnishing so she first went and scrubbed […]

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Hot as hell

A while ago I muttered about all the rain we had, justified as it turns out as 2015 was the wettest in the past five years, but now it is time to complain about the lack of rain and the hot spell we are enduring. Luckily most of the work we planned was either in

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Sad news

We got quite a shock earlier this week when we got a phone call from Jeanette in Blue Horizon with the news that Goodman’s son had died in a car accident. We have exchanged messages and obviously he finds it difficult to cope. This is most likely my last post of the year. We had

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Some work, some play

November has seen quite a mix of activities so let me run past them. The Van Stadens Forum meeting took place on 4.10.15 with a visit to the Lottering Forest to look at the indigenous trees planted and to point out the bottlebrush infestations on the way to the Upper Dam. The river was flowing

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Back to normal

After the hectic weeks of preparing for the Open Day it was a nice change to be more or less back to our usual activities and keep ploughing our lonely furrow.. Granted, there was still plenty of cleaning up to do, get the Fovs room back in shape, put tables back, get chairs and folding

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Open Day

2015.10.02 What can one say, what a brilliant Open Day. There was such a good vibe on the day with all the activities and we were overwhelmed by all the support, compliments and, of course, contributions. Friday we still had to do a fair amount of preparation, not least the gathering and tying of the

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