overhaul

This website is in desperate need of an overhaul. I need to summon the designer within in and try my hand at making a new title/logo. If only I knew how any of this computer design stuff worked. I will have to get back to you on this one.

In other news… We are in the process of making a home-office at, well, home. Now this sounds pretty simple: Get a desk, a chair, some storage stuff and ‘viola!’ home-office done. But in our case things get a little complicated. So I made a list:

Space
- awkward/awesome
- light
- a view!
- 3m (long) x 2m (deep)

What we Have
- a printer (haha!)
- window film on the windows so that the neighbours can’t see in

What we Need
- desk to fit 2 people
- neat storage for files
- neat storage for other officey stuff
- air-con

This makes things nice and precise on paper. We now need to get our thinking caps on, on how to get this space to work for us. Major problem with living in South Africa – we don’t have that many places doing great design work for reasonable prices so, theres a probability of having to get something made for this space. Also because this such an uber awkward/awesome space it makes fitting something already made into it more difficult.

Feel like helping out? How nice of you.

the space

view

full space

death hike

So, when your super-mom and her hiking team invite you to join a 6 day hike along some of the most beautiful terrain in our country, what do you say? Well, I said yes. Having just returned with broken knee caps and faulty ankles you can only imagine what sort of hike this was. I would consider myself an average hiker, I mean I haven’t climbed Kilimanjaro or anything (which is apparently easier than what I signed up for myself) BUT, I can hike.

The Amathole mountain range in the Eastern Cape is not to be fucked with! People, this mountain range means business. 100km in 6 days. Thats what lay ahead of us as we took the 12hour drive from Cape Town to Hogsback (which by the way is a very pretty little Tolkienesque town and completely put me at ease with the fact that I would be sleeping in a hut, showering in cold water and pooping in a hole in the ground for the next 6 days). I am not going to go into the details of each day but, I am going to say that I am still happy to be alive.

The place is beautiful, its that simple. Almost nothing can beat sitting in the middle of nowhere surrounded by mountains and watching a thunder storm approach and then crash about around you. Or traversing down some slippery slopes and finding yourself at the bottom of a massive waterfall. We forged a brand new path through what I affectionately began calling ‘Orc Forrest’ and if there was ever a thorn bush that lived, it lived in this part of the world. ‘Mordor’, ‘Spikeland’ and its sequel ‘Spikeland 2: The Valley of the Death Spike’ are only a few of the other places we adventured through in order to get home in one piece.

At the end of the day the hike was a challenge of mind over body and although my body gave up on day one I managed to make it through 5 of the 6 days (we cut our quest a day short in order to ensure the safety of our clan).

the Ent forrest

rainbow

stormy sunset

me and mom

mordor