W&N watercolours on Arches 300gsm
A couple of years ago, in August 2006, South Africa was struck by an unusual phenomena, snow! It is something we rarely experience and it therefore always creates great excitement as well as hard-ship. Especially in the farming community, as livestock is always at risk because of the vast sizes of our farms and the large numbers of livestock we farm with – no barns really big enough to house all of them. No protection against the freezing temperatures and also a great problem with feed supplies. Luckily, people like us on smallholdings (8.5ha, which is 10 morgen or 21 acres), have fewer animals, making winter much more manageable, but still not worry-free.
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I had heard that South Africa very occasionally gets snow. If you aren't prepared for it I can understand why it causes so much trouble!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly does Kristie! It is then also photographed and talked about for weeks!
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