Plettenberg Bay

The Chainsaw Massacre

Over the years I made various assaults on the wattles with my chainsaw but my…


The dumping ground

  Back in the day the farm was a bit of a dump – in the literal sense of…


Lighting the Lounge

The “lounge” was pretty well-made and lined with tongue and groove but the…


Bohemian Bedroom

The “bedroom” was tiny with an even lower ceiling than the bathroom and we were…


Kitchen confidential

As far as the kitchen was concerned, there wasn’t one. For the first few years…


"Chic" Shack living

I’m tall but not unusually so. Our shack however, was designed for unusually…


Roughing it

When the land we live on was subdivided, our portion amounted to about eight…


Upping sticks & moving

Jo and I moved to Plettenberg Bay from Grahamstown, in the early nineties. I’d…


Meanwhile, back in Makhanda

I’ve always been a red wine drinker. In Grahamstown where I grew up, there were…


A Cautionary Tale

This is a brief story of how Jo and I started That Wine. As a story it is…