Author Archives: wineandwilddogs

Yesterday evening Clive and I planned a walk, to dust the cobwebs gleaned from a day of internet interaction. Descending the steep driveway to the base of our hill, atop which perches our Tsaven house, with hand-carved walking sticks as … Continue reading →

Night before last-Natasha Anderson of the Lowveld Rhino Trust spent an evening with us, sharing a bottle of Excelsior Merlot 2010, handpicked by her wine route-hopping friends in Cape Town. A delicious soft wine, yet with rich red fruit flavour, … Continue reading →

Plans to travel to Chilo Gorge lodge this weekend excite me. We will refurbish and re-open, re-invent and restore this jewel to the pristine safari wilderness experience it deserves to be.

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to plan in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” -John Muir I want to make an ALDO LEOPOLD BENCH to place … Continue reading →

Drank unctuous red wine and ate aromatic red bean curry last night. Lucille, a PHD student from France, arrived with our friend and scientist colleague, Peter Lindsay, to spend the night. She came bearing a bottle of  Clos Saint-Martin, Madiran … Continue reading →

‘Home Alone’ at our Tsavene house in the Save Valley Consevancy, I lay awake a long time last night… the two jack Russell dogs, Mhisi and Nchila, lay at the foot of my bed as usual-was it Nchila who was … Continue reading →

what a great idea-interactive and creative storybook app on Conservation -view this! Somehow I would like to create a story book type blog, with paintintings and sketches, a page turner…   Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming | … Continue reading →

Here I am again, new to all this but enjoying the challenge of learning to Blog! These photos from last year show me with Jeremy Borg of Painted Wolf Wines and the Giant bottle of his Pictus wine, which I … Continue reading →