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Snow in South Africa – Yesterday
This pretty, wintery scene is yesterday, in the sub-tropical Drakensburg, in South Africa. Snow fell in many places in South Africa yesterday, it seems, including Gauteng, which last saw snow in 1981. For the past five years, when we lived in Johannesburg, I anticipated snow in Joeys, but it did not come. We leave, it comes! It was our daughter Michelle’s first chance to get up close and personal with the white stuff, as for grandsons Rhys and Matthew who just thought is was too cold!
Front page of The Star newspaper in Joburg, today
My brother Rogan sent me this picture of his new method for doing pastoral visits in rural Colorado. Can you tell that he obviously hates it! We had a lovely catch-up conversation on Skype lastnight for me and lunchtime for him. They seem to be settling in well to their new home of Southfork, Colorado. 8000 feet up, and loads of the white stuff as you can clearly see.
Rogan & Caroline in their new natural surroundings
From what I hear, their are more of these than human beings in Rogan’s church!
Think of all the biltong possibilities…
The picture is in their garden
Think of all the biltong possibilities…
The picture is in their garden
Ashleigh hits a bullseye!
On the same day that we experienced our first English snow, Ashleigh had her first ever sight of the white stuff. The picture is breakfast-time before work, in Oxford, and she has just thrown a snowball at Julie, who looks really happy about the bonding experience. The location is their garden. Photo by Ed
Looking up King Edward Avenue, BN14 8DL about 6.00 AM
Noel Coward famously wrote that ‘mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun’, but today it snowed for our first time in Worthing, and so ‘mad Mark’ went out in the dark at 6 AM to take pictures of all this white stuff gently falling around and about. We celebrated with a hot cup of coffee and Rose’s scrumptious chocolate chip cookies.
View from front door, neighbour’s car
Our car – at last a use for the ice-scraper!
By 6.45, there were signs the snow was slipping off the cars. I guess most folk in Worthing will wake and groan about their cars, the walk to work, etc, but for us this was an event! We have seen snow before, but never seen it falling.
We spent the weekend in KZN, mostly because of grandson Rhys’ first birthday. Snow fell upon parts of the Drakensberg, and we did see it from just outside Hilton, but from a distance away. The Maluti mountians in Lesotho were full of snow this weekend, and this pic from Eben Olivier off http://www.news24.com/News24/Gallery/Home/0,,galleries-1-2395,00.html gives an indication of what we saw from many more miles away. It was pretty chilly, and back in Joburg today, the temperatures are not that much better.
Today was my mother, Marlene’s 72nd birthday (she in Harare) and Julie & Ed sent a photo of snow on their car in Oxford the same day Rob Ellis sent other photos of snow in Derby, UK. The picture sending to and fro reminds me of my neighbour in 1979 (Keith Taylor, no relative) who working for the then PTC in Salisbury, excitedly telling me of the great hullabaloo they had when they started receiving pictures for the newspaper by telephone line … grainy black and white photos that took all night to download! Toay we snap, zip, and upload from our cameras or phones just like we’ve always done this!
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