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David Hockney creates IPad Art, Lin Barrie is inspired……..!

Posted on January 22, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

I am inspired! Last year I created a wine bottle label for Painted Wolf Wines, a bottle to be auctioned at our Taste of Africa event in the Mukuvisi Woodlands, raising awareness and funds for African wild dogs…I created it … Continue reading →

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Theatre Dinner at Chilo Gorge Lodge, hyena chorus and lion opera……

Posted on January 18, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

14th January: A return to Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge for meetings, good company and plans for the future, finds us all sitting on the wooden deck overlooking the wilderness of the Gonarezhou National Park opposite us, enjoying a dinner under … Continue reading →

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Sustainable solution for Save Valley Conservancy…….

Posted on January 10, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

Clive Stockil and I have travelled from Senuko and are again in Harare, together with other Conservancy members, for meetings with Government and all interested parties, to gain resolution on final indigenisation from Government. Today is another step in the … Continue reading →

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Running in front of a cyclone, diamonds and raindrops…..

Posted on January 9, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

8th January: On our way back to Senuko, we drive into the dusk with flashing stabs of lightening that illuminate a huge cloud front in the East, somewhere over Mozambique. Seems like the front of weather from the cyclone in … Continue reading →

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Chilo hornbills in flight, cute spider and aloe spikes….

Posted on January 9, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

6th January: A visit to Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, delivering radios for their communications, gives me a chance to dive into the gardens and catch up with the gardeners there. A sundown visit to the Chivalula Falls is awe inspiring, … Continue reading →

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Button quail sound like young African wild dogs, red wing starlings sound messy!….

Posted on January 9, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

4th January: heard a plaintive sound last night and again early this morning, almost like a young wild dog calling whoo whoo in the distance, but have suddenly realized it is the button quail, calling from thick grass cover…. Peering … Continue reading →

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New Years Day, resolutions, and Crinum lilies…..

Posted on January 4, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

1st January 2014: New Years Day dawns grey, raining and cool. Night of the 31st we heard Clive’s BBC interview..brief but powerful comment on rhino losses and challenges we face… Zimbabwe policy on indigenisation of companies to be announced today…we … Continue reading →

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No rain, no resolution, buffaloes bombshell…….

Posted on January 4, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

29th December: A few days of no rain and no resolution… A few days of no rain and the grass is grey and curling. Strong winds have blown apart a forked Brachystegia tamarindoides tree over our swimming pool, but it … Continue reading →

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Chiromantis frogs in the rain, Amur falcons, spotted eagles and flying ants….

Posted on January 4, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

Birds birds birds….a joyous cacaphony of sound flows from the two village weaver colonies that are building in the Brachystigia tamarindoides trees at Tsavene. Leaves flutter down from high as they strip the trees and begin the weaving of their … Continue reading →

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Lions and Jack Russells, Barn owls and Red winged starlings….

Posted on January 4, 2014 by wineandwilddogs

Lions have been calling near and far all night, as they have been ever since we returned to our bush house two days ago. Day before yesterday they shouted all day as well as all night…must have killed something. One … Continue reading →

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