Sep 2021 - Ballito Umhlanga
Spring flowers, fun and food. Houseboat cruising on Lake Jozini, macadamia nut farming, celebrating Heritage day in style with Black Elephant Vintners, exploring our North Coast with its array of attractions and a Montblanc spoil for him and her.
Spring flowers, fun and food. Houseboat cruising on Lake Jozini, macadamia nut farming, celebrating Heritage day in style with Black Elephant Vintners, exploring our North Coast with its array of attractions and a Montblanc spoil for him and her.
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Book club<br />
Kindness, and strength, and grief. And good company.<br />
Very few of us don’t know, and love, Charlie Mackesy’s<br />
sketches and reminders of what truly matters in<br />
life. Life seen through the adventures of four best<br />
friends - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse.<br />
The four are, Charlie says, all a little different. He can<br />
see himself in all of them and suggests we may see<br />
them in ourselves, too. The boy, lonely. The mole<br />
wise, and greedy for cake (aren’t we all). The fox is the<br />
quietest ... silent and wary because he’s been hurt by<br />
life. And the horse ... massive, but the most gentle.<br />
Charlie posts his lovely sketches and heart-warming,<br />
thoughtful sayings on Instagram, but we like to keep<br />
a copy of the book close by, to dip into when we<br />
need to be brave. ‘What do you want to be when you<br />
grow up?’ ‘Kind’, said the boy.’ Penguin, from Exclusive<br />
Books. Follow Charlie on Instagram @charliemackesy<br />
Journey’s End Vineyards have released the latest<br />
vintages of their new-look Tales Series; a range<br />
of four wines, each with eye-catching modern<br />
designs to show the inspiration behind the labels.<br />
This month we’re opening a bottle of Journey’s<br />
End Pastor’s Blend Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot<br />
Cabernet Franc 2019, which pays homage to<br />
the Pastors from the local village of Sir Lowry’s<br />
Pass who regularly deliver Sunday sermons at<br />
the foot of the Journey’s End vineyard. It is<br />
through these local pastors that Journey’s<br />
End channels resources for their support<br />
and development programmes to uplift<br />
a community traditionally plagued by<br />
low socio-economic conditions. Their<br />
support includes running soup kitchens<br />
and pensioners’ lunches, building a new<br />
school hall, providing music lessons,<br />
funding a crèche and a campaign to<br />
eradicate bullying in the township schools.<br />
The wine, a blend of 44 per cent Cabernet<br />
Sauvignon, 29 per cent Merlot, and 27 per<br />
cent Cabernet Franc, has rich notes of juicy<br />
dark red fruit including plums, cherries and<br />
blackberries with a savoury spice dusting<br />
from the oak and some dried herbs giving<br />
it versatility for a range of food dishes. Since<br />
we’re not waiting to open it, luckily this wine<br />
is made for earlier drinking rather than long<br />
cellaring. On winemaker Mike Dawson’s<br />
recommendation, we’ll enjoy with lamb<br />
shanks, but it’s also excellent with roast<br />
beef or venison. Around R117 from shop.<br />
journeysend.co.za
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