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Rhian2017-06-10 15:17:582017-09-20 16:08:18Stepping Up
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Rhian2017-04-30 14:29:122017-09-19 12:05:24The Fresh Miracle of Surprise
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Rhian2017-03-12 15:25:582017-09-20 16:05:54Normal is Over
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Rhian2017-02-25 12:15:192017-09-19 12:27:02Three Days Before the FireOur Story
We lived a simple life in a converted farm worker’s cottage on a fynbos hill on the edge of a valley of natural forest near Plettenberg Bay on the Garden Route, South Africa. We harvested all our rain water and were solely dependent on it for the home and the vegetable garden, recycled our grey water back into the garden and were very conscious of our resource and waste footprint. That all changed on the 28 February 2017…
Normal is Over
This image held up such a mirror for me, it’s like the images playing through my mind of my own home, how the still life of preciously placed things would have been hungrily consumed by the fire. And how easily your home sanctuary can be reduced to rubble and ash. And now hundreds and hundreds of others are homeless like us…
Three Days Before the Fire
Three days before the fire took our home I wrote this….
There’s hardly any honey on the local beekeeper’s shelves and he explains it’s because of the drought (the flowers didn’t flower), and because of the fires that burnt huge tracts of wild bush and because of a bee disease moving up from the South so he can’t move his hives. We are all rationed…