Every mother's milk is as unique as a fingerprint - no two mothers produce identical milk, no two babies receive identical nutrition... Breast milk is food, medicine, and signal - all at once." Leaders in Lactation: Dr. Katie Hinde www.facebook.com/share/p/17oW...

Bowie, perusing the world. Birds singing, cockerels crowing. Have a lekker dag, good morning 🐕

Toby joined us for a short 'toilet' walk tonight 🐕🐕

Sun's up! Chores started here, the first sections of buchu and the vegetable garden are being irrigated 💦🐕

We've got a visitor, the old man Toby 🐕

Our Story: è finito, Tür zu oppad.substack.com/p/e-finito-t...

First day in our new home! Bowie's perusing the landscape and has gone for a little wonder. I'm going to connect the gas stove and make a coffee. good morning 🐕

arrivo! This is our new huisie, with a view out of the kitchen. A different kind of mooi 🏡

The day started with a rain shower, "Die Engel weinen", our Mother would say. "Warum?" would ask the kids walkies 🐕

"I do know though, that what I have come here to build is also building me in a way that I could have never dreamed of." open.substack.com/pub/sbreit/p...

"...my attention always returned to the heart of Paternoster: the fishing community nestled right in the middle, steadfast and unchanged. There is an older soul here, ...something shaped by wind, salt, memory, and the ceaseless sea" open.substack.com/pub/maritabe...

Bowie's a bit confused, as Oruna is outside. And Sheila! It's time to get up and have a coffee on the stoep. Skud daai border, good morning 🐕🐎🐕

"Just me" substack.com/@cartoonsbyh...

"Two woodcutters with cedar planks, Cederberg 1934. Photo by Ken Howes-Howell" web.facebook.com/share/p/17S1... Reminds of the Daleen Matthee books

sun's up good morning 🌻

The shortage of doctors in Africa is so severe that "most people will spend their entire lifetime never seeing a doctor — not when they are born, not when they die, and not in between" time.com/7338791/childhood-mortality-increasing-gates-foundation

Bowie looking for his ball, which he dropped down that hole. I'm not putting my hand in there, could be a snake having a snooze 🥎🐕

We've got a break from the hot weather today. Some garden work, with the help of Bowie and Oruna. Have that cake, good morning 🌻

The Ghost Town of Bowesdorp: "A key moment came in 1919 when the new Dutch Reformed Church minister, Dr. W.P. Steenkamp, chose to build a new church in Springbok rather than repair the old one in Bowesdorp" web.facebook.com/share/p/14Yq...

An interesting overview of the mechanisms used by ungulates (hooved animals) in adapting to the arid zones of north Africa and the Middle East. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A foggy and refreshingly cool start to the day in my valley. good morning 🐕

"It shows that using bees as a deterrent could be context or geographically specific—so it's not a method that would work everywhere... Low bee numbers likely mean fewer elephants have had painful encounters with swarms..." phys.org/news/2025-12-unbee-lievable-botswana-elephants-easily.html

The Story of Bowie and his Dad. This week: "Min dae - the countdown has begun" oppad.substack.com/p/min-dae-th...

"Since the 1960s a group of oryx have been shuffled around zoos and institutions like Marwell, with keepers acting as matchmakers to prevent inbreeding among the captive population." bbc.com/future/artic...

The Story of Lekkersing: "Today the settlement remains one of the small historic communities of the Richtersveld, known for its Nama heritage and long-established traditions." web.facebook.com/share/p/1CZL...

Walvis Bay Salt has recently observed jackal pups moving around the area. We kindly ask motorists to drive slowly and stay alert, as the jackals pups and other wild life may cross the road unexpectedly. Read more about Walvis Bay Salt at: www.wbsalt.com

"When driving through the Karoo or the semi-arid valleys of the Eastern Cape, the landscape appears sparse: low shrubs, vast dry plains and little shade. But according to Nick Hamp-Adams, the landscape is a far cry from the ecosystem it once was." www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

moeg gespeel 🐕

"The town began as Troe-Troe... Its position at the southern edge of the Succulent Karoo places it within a unique ecological zone, now known for having one of the highest concentrations of succulent species in the world." The Story of VanRhynsDorp www.facebook.com/share/p/1AZq...

Houston, we have a problem! I now have sheep around my huisie, which Bowie spotted. It took me a while to get hold of my little helper. Fortunately, quite early, nobody's awake yet 🐑🐕

"Van Gogh's letters fill a gap in the soul..." substack.com/@atlaspress/...

Full moon, setting dorp dag good morning 🐕

Today, I've been learning about Carl Jung "Jung viewed the ability to be comfortably alone with oneself, in silence, as a sign of real spiritual maturity. Silence can feel unsettling because it brings us face-to-face with ourselves..." mentalzon.com/en/post/5001...

mooi bly net mooi

moments 🐕🐎

"The Out of Eden Walk is a 24,000-mile journalistic endeavor to create a global record of human life at the start of a new millennium as told by villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists who rarely make the news" gis.harvard.edu/out-eden-walk

“Do not let hatred make a home in your heart,” she would say. “Let the light do its work.” The Battlefield Within: An Elder’s Journey from Struggle to Stillness - Jay Naido KUDU Journal, issue 3, pg 10 kudujournal.wordpress.com/archive/

sun's up! Bowie's a bit grumpy this morning, hy wou nog 'n bietjie lê 🐕

"An ear of pre-colonization era Glass Gem Corn grown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma. This particular corn is a mix of ancient Pawnee, Osage and Cherokee varieties." substack.com/@badspit/not...

Oruna wants to join us on our sunrise walk good morning 🐕 🐎

A rare kuier these days: Boeta 🐕🐕

"One functionality that was thought to have evaded eukaryotic cells was the ability to suck up nitrogen gas, N2, from the air and convert it into essential amino acids... the discovery of the first nitrogen-fixing organelle (nitroplast)." asm.org/articles/202...

"Seed onion production is proving a valuable drought risk mitigation strategy for several farmers in the Karoo Highlands of the Northern Cape, around Williston, Fraserburg, and Calvinia" www.farmersweekly.co.za/crops/vegeta...

"The results indicate that modern cats did not actually arrive in Europe until around 2000 years ago, meaning that they were not brought over by Neolithic farmers, as previously thought" phys.org/news/2025-11...

An interesting and thought-provoking read. I daresay that the same ideas, discussion, debate could be applied to the biological sciences (my background) substack.com/@johanfourie...

A Word about the ongoing worries about the Expropriation Act in South Africa - Wandile Sihlobo KUDU Journal issue 3, pg 48 kudujournal.wordpress.com/archive/

watching the sunrise good morning 🐕

KUDU - A Journal of South African Writing kudujournal.wordpress.com/kudu-issue-3/

Oxford Word of the Year 2025 (n.) Online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage..., typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media account. corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...

"Men Explain Things to Me" - Rebecca Solnit "Once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you can't unsee it, you can start to change it." web.facebook.com/share/p/1WJu...