Vintage Kruger

Some vintage books, I just can’t fold or cut up.  This book: The Kruger Park and Other National Parks by RJ Labuschagne is one of them. 

Published in 1968, beside documenting the animals in the Parks, it is such a lovely comment on South African Society at the time. 

I loved the article on the modern way of darting hippos for research.  Driving a grader into the river was much safer than sending real live biologists in!

And the foreword to the book was written from The Prime Minister’s Office – BJ Vorster himself!I love the official font!

I would have been 8 years old at the time.  My first visit to the Kruger Park only happened a number of years later – but I do rememebr my mom and dad dressing very much like the mom and dad in the pic and the Johannesburg TJ car registration plate which was the predecessor of today’s GP registration in Gauteng.

Life!

Life, since I last posted on my blog has been quite busy and quite interesting!
In celebration of our 30th wedding anniversary, my husband and I flew our children and ourselves to Gauteng to ride on the new Gautrain. 

We stopped off for breakfast at Maria Koutsoudakis‘ beautiful Life Store at Sandton City.
The Gautrain was a wonderful experience.  It felt like being in Europe, but everything was so brand new, shiny and squeaky clean!
Saturday was another I♥market. It was good to get together with fellow bloggers and store holders and customers.
My mom and youngest daughter arrived back on Sunday from 2 weeks away in Scotland and Ireland.  It is great to have them back.
Freshly Found is going well too. There are some exciting developments. It’s keeping me very busy!