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Gogo Olive Animals adorn my wire baobab Christmas Tree; Fierce Hunters adorn my mantelpiece and Hearth!

Posted on December 25, 2018 by wineandwilddogs

My beloved Wire Baobab Christmas Tree is made by local craftsmen, and I use it every year in my African bush house, standing in front of our huge fireplace…​​ This year I have used extra special Gogo Olive knitted animals…. … Continue reading →

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sweet/bitter: senuko seasons past and yet to come

Posted on January 10, 2018 by wineandwilddogs

Watch out! Many gorgeous flowers such as my Adenium swazicum, harbour a resident crab spider, cute but deadly…(if you are the size of a fly)… Bitter Sweet reminisces… Our year past, 2017, at our bush house, Tsavene, has been one … Continue reading →

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Mahove Camp and Baobabs; Night sounds and True Wilderness

Posted on July 5, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

A night of the deepest sounds of Africa, at Mahove camp on the Runde river. After a gentle, magical afternoon of sketching the baobabs close to camp, whilst listening to a cow herd of elephants splashing their way across the … Continue reading →

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Deeper, and deeper, into Africa!

Posted on May 2, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

The HAC Caravan lifts effortlessly and we wing our way over the neat cluster of high rise buildings that puncture Harare’s CBD, surrounded in the south by sprawling fast growing hi-density suburbia- row upon row of little box houses standing … Continue reading →

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An amazing mollusk: the Giant African Land Snail, revered totem of the Chauke Clan…

Posted on March 13, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

I love sketching the shells of these snails, so sculptural…. Achatina fulica is a species of land snail in the family Achatinidae, known commonly as the  giant African land snail. Wikipedia says: Outside of its native range this snail thrives … Continue reading →

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Cleome by any other name would taste as sweet…..good ‘slow’ food at Chilo Gorge!

Posted on March 8, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Beautiful Cleome Gynandra is growing fast in our Gonarezhou area with the recent rain. Thomas Mutombeni, head guide at Chilo Gorge, says: “it is a food plant, the leaves of which the Shangaans cook and eat like spinach. Shangaans call it … Continue reading →

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A wedding to remember……forever

Posted on December 29, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

Life is a roller coaster, high wave adventure, and Kelli and Anton started 2015 on a huge wave….!   riding their separate cruise ships round the Hawaii’an Islands and the Caribbean islands! While on their far-apart cruise ships, Kelli and … Continue reading →

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Elephants, Sabi Stars and Aloes go well together in the garden at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge…..

Posted on July 29, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

Over the last weeks our young bulls have been munching trees nightly around the rooms, looking down their long trunks at me in disdain as I try to shoo them away… ……..and for the last few nights at Chilo, two of them have raided … Continue reading →

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“Waste no Waste: Trash is Treasure”; Recycled Art in a great cause

Posted on April 24, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

The Friends of the Gallery (FOG) is an organization of volunteers, working to promote visual art in Zimbabwe. Their main aim is to assist the National Gallery through adding to the permanent collection, supporting maintenance and upkeep of the collection … Continue reading →

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Flowers fit for a wedding indeed…..an announcement has been made!

Posted on February 24, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

    Flowers fit for a wedding…..joyous colours of flowers in the Hawai’i Botanic Gardens reflect the happiness we all feel for Kelli and Anton……. Anton’s photo of a full moon, 15 floors above the surface of the ocean…..! I … Continue reading →

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