Fact is stranger than fiction. Beautiful
mediterranean winter day here. Blue sky and the cat sitting in my shade. We are
in the eye of the storm. The country around us has rain. And snow!! The national
road between Cape Town and Johannesburg was closed by snow, and so was the
second route. Meanwhile our Swartland wheat farmers wait for rain. We’ve had no
rain since the 2nd of July, and this should be a heavy winter rain month.
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| Kniphofia fading to yellow |
