every year the residents of hogsback choose to celebrate Christmas in July because it is winter time in July in South Africa. This allows one to cook traditional meals without suffering through the heat of South African summer. It’s a cute idea with every tourist ploy in the book pulled Read more…
The landscape, botanicals and all round liveliness of the South African bush continue to fascinate Jeremy who has for a year and a half been living in a handmade cabin in the woods high in the Eastern Cape province. Jeremy feels isolated from the village of Hogsback below where he Read more…
I’ve just heard about the second suicide of somebody in my ken who was also associated with this toxic Hogsback bunch. A woman I was quite fond of who I knew from our time in North Western Johannesburg as members of the same social circles but who had also come Read more…
I met a man recently who told me, almost at our first meeting, that he was an alcoholic who had been sober for a year. I immediately understood that he was at risk of committing suicide in Hogsback. Certainly for the first few months of our friendship, he was sober. Read more…
Every day I do a little bit more work on the cabin that I’m building up here at number 48 main road hogsback in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa. I also get out my chisels, sharpen them up and do some work Carving in Hogsback. At least a Read more…
I’m afraid I simply cannot come to terms with the behavior of these dreadful people who dominate the central business district of the village of Hogsback in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Is this really an example of hogsback manners? Where the hell do these awful people get Read more…
Well I have blogged previously about my experience at the hands of the drug addled homophobic pseudo Christian rave culture that invaded the village of hogsback in the eastern cape Province of South Africa. What an awful experience that was to hug my friend of 16 years at one of Read more…
I realize, having now spent some time in the village of Hogsback, that many of the children here are not attending School. They are attending that awful monster, Hogsback Homeschool.Their precocity not withstanding it seems a damned shame that an entire generation of children should be educationally neglected simply to Read more…
As an artist I find that the environment in the Eastern eastern Cape mountains above the village of Hogsback is rather inspiring the light is quite beautiful and the Flora and Fauna available to see are quite extraordinary. I find myself devoting much of my time to the art of Read more…
The meaning of a portrait to this South African artist The meaning of art is yet mysterious. I am a South African artist and I spent my life making art of one sort of another and the best explanation that I have of exactly what I’m doing is what one Read more…