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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Dorothy Constance Dennis ...
This is a cutting from the Rhodesia Herald, August 1964, showing my grandmother, Dorothy Constance Dennis.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Western Cape Snow ...
Western Cape Snow
On the way back from sunny KZN we hit the cold front south of Beaufort West. It rained heavily all the way back to Cape Town. In Worcester at 2pm it was so dark and rainy that all the street lights were on!
It was great to see water all through the southern Karoo. Laingsburg was awash, the Groot river flowing very strongly under the bridge.
Matroosburg was covered in snow but the view was not great due to the low cloud
Hex River Mountains at the head of the Hex River Pass
A very wintery Hex River valley
Snow on the Hex
Winter view of the Hex valley
Radiation from cell phone masts is not proven to be harmful but don't let anyone tell you that poorer communities don't suffer the brunt of bad planning decisions
Picture postcard landscape with farm cottages - but bloody cold!
I just couldn't resist pictures of the winter vineyards in the Hex valley
In Du Toitskloof Pass
Cold!
We chose to drive over the pass to see more snow rather than drive through the tunnel
Witteberg - literaly
More cold!
The Du Toitskloof mountains were pouring water
View back down the N1
View from high up Du Toitskloof pass
Every little stream was gushing
Snow and cloud
Our car and small trailer full of lovely Kiaat and Red Ivory logs from up north
The streams were really flowing
Over the top of the pass
It was raining so heavily down the Cape Town side of the mountains that there was no point in stopping for pics
Then into the late afternoon Cape Town traffic, jukkk!
And home to a very warm welcome by the boys.
On the way back from sunny KZN we hit the cold front south of Beaufort West. It rained heavily all the way back to Cape Town. In Worcester at 2pm it was so dark and rainy that all the street lights were on!
It was great to see water all through the southern Karoo. Laingsburg was awash, the Groot river flowing very strongly under the bridge.
Matroosburg was covered in snow but the view was not great due to the low cloud
Hex River Mountains at the head of the Hex River Pass
A very wintery Hex River valley
Snow on the Hex
Winter view of the Hex valley
Radiation from cell phone masts is not proven to be harmful but don't let anyone tell you that poorer communities don't suffer the brunt of bad planning decisions
Picture postcard landscape with farm cottages - but bloody cold!
I just couldn't resist pictures of the winter vineyards in the Hex valley
In Du Toitskloof Pass
Cold!
We chose to drive over the pass to see more snow rather than drive through the tunnel
Witteberg - literaly
More cold!
The Du Toitskloof mountains were pouring water
View back down the N1
View from high up Du Toitskloof pass
Every little stream was gushing
Snow and cloud
Our car and small trailer full of lovely Kiaat and Red Ivory logs from up north
The streams were really flowing
Over the top of the pass
It was raining so heavily down the Cape Town side of the mountains that there was no point in stopping for pics
Then into the late afternoon Cape Town traffic, jukkk!
And home to a very warm welcome by the boys.
Gordon's Cottage - Colesburg
Gordon's Cottage - Colesburg
On the way home from AWSA 2008 we stayed in Colesburg in our favourite accommodation in the town, Gordon's Cottage
Phone +27517530390 for bookings
The front door
The cottage dates from 1861
The main bedroom
There is another room with three single beds
View into the lounge
Gigi by the heater in the lounge
From the lounge, looking back into the bedroom
The kitchen ...
... looking into the back room
Old kitchen utensils displayed in the back room
Washing up area in the back room
The kitchen looking back into the lounge
Very rustic
The bath with lots of hot water
Perfect for cold Karoo evenings
A very pleasant short stay as always
On the way home from AWSA 2008 we stayed in Colesburg in our favourite accommodation in the town, Gordon's Cottage
Phone +27517530390 for bookings
The front door
The cottage dates from 1861
The main bedroom
There is another room with three single beds
View into the lounge
Gigi by the heater in the lounge
From the lounge, looking back into the bedroom
The kitchen ...
... looking into the back room
Old kitchen utensils displayed in the back room
Washing up area in the back room
The kitchen looking back into the lounge
Very rustic
The bath with lots of hot water
Perfect for cold Karoo evenings
A very pleasant short stay as always
AWSA Symposium 2008 Group Photos ...
The Association of Woodturners of South Africa (AWSA) 2008 Symposium was held in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa from 3 July to 6 July, 2008
These are the three group photographs I took.
You can download the three full size images from MediaFire here.
In MediaFire click on each file name and then "Download image".
The photos below are smaller 640 x 480 pixel versions of the full size images.
AWSA 2008 group photo 1
AWSA 2008 group photo 2
AWSA 2008 group photo 3
These are the three group photographs I took.
You can download the three full size images from MediaFire here.
In MediaFire click on each file name and then "Download image".
The photos below are smaller 640 x 480 pixel versions of the full size images.
AWSA 2008 group photo 1
AWSA 2008 group photo 2
AWSA 2008 group photo 3
AWSA Symposium 2008 Critique ...
The Association of Woodturners of South Africa (AWSA) 2008 Symposium was held in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa from 3 July to 6 July, 2008
Here are some pics of the critique session. the crit session was held after dinner and after a very interesting presentation by Butch Smuts titled something along the lines of, "Suppressing the visual dominance of circularity in our woodturning". A most interesting and thought provoking presentation. Thanks Butch.
Chris Morewood of the Conference organising Committee introducing Nick Arnull and Michelle Rall
Michelle Rall is a ceramicist
She and Nick gave excellent crits of the pieces
Nick Arnull doing his crit thing
Mmmmm!
Ja well no fine!
Thanks to Michelle and Nick for a very informative session
Here are some pics of the critique session. the crit session was held after dinner and after a very interesting presentation by Butch Smuts titled something along the lines of, "Suppressing the visual dominance of circularity in our woodturning". A most interesting and thought provoking presentation. Thanks Butch.
Chris Morewood of the Conference organising Committee introducing Nick Arnull and Michelle Rall
Michelle Rall is a ceramicist
She and Nick gave excellent crits of the pieces
Nick Arnull doing his crit thing
Mmmmm!
Ja well no fine!
Thanks to Michelle and Nick for a very informative session
AWSA Symposium 2008 Rotations ...
The Association of Woodturners of South Africa (AWSA) 2008 Symposium was held in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa from 3 July to 6 July, 2008
A couple of pics of the very few rotations that I attended.
Nick Arnull of Norwich, England was the AWSA's guest turner
Here he is introducing his first rotation
Some of the audience at Nick's first rotation
John Wessels of Sedgefield presented two rotations dealing with 'sheet pewter' and 'cast pewter'
John turning a mold to take cast pewter
John turning cast pewter
Robin Reynolds presented a rotation on ornamental turning with a Holtzapffel type lathe
I took a bunch of photographs for the enthuiasts
A couple of pics of the very few rotations that I attended.
Nick Arnull of Norwich, England was the AWSA's guest turner
Here he is introducing his first rotation
Some of the audience at Nick's first rotation
John Wessels of Sedgefield presented two rotations dealing with 'sheet pewter' and 'cast pewter'
John turning a mold to take cast pewter
John turning cast pewter
Robin Reynolds presented a rotation on ornamental turning with a Holtzapffel type lathe
I took a bunch of photographs for the enthuiasts
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