I wrote this post at the end of last year, but didn’t finish it. Now, though, I have another good reason for posting it: Joey the War Horse will be coming to the Cape Town Military Tattoo 2015 at the Castle of Good Hope in a couple of weeks’ time! In early December last year,…
Last year, I wrote and submitted a number of articles to the Pinelands Muse community magazine and the Reserve Force Volunteer magazine, as well as the Equestrian Express and the Sawubona in-flight magazine of South African Airways, our national carrier. In order to update my CV at the start of January, I compiled a list, which I thought I’d share with you, in case you are curious.
Exciting news! I have just received confirmation that an article I had submitted to Equestrian Express has in fact been published in their Issue No. 3 of 29 August 2012.
The article is titled “Cart Horse Angels to the Rescue: Protecting the cart horses of Cape Town”.
Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop… a line of cart horses from the Cape Flats came a-trotting down the road, pulling colourful carts of all shapes and sizes – elegant two-wheelers, traditional four-wheeler passenger carts, and rustic handmade scrap-metal carts. Some sported a fresh lick of paint and even their tyres had been scrubbed clean. That day, the carts were transporting family and friends and supplies for a picnic, instead of the usual awkward loads of scrap metal, building rubble and garden refuse.
Three mornings a week, the Cart Horse Protection Association of Cape Town opens the doors of their Epping premises to offer veterinary and farrier services to the cart horse community of the Cape Flats (see previous post). As this is not sufficient to deal with all the horses who have to be shod, dewormed, tetanus-injected,…
When I arrive at the clinic of the Cart Horse Protection Association in Epping 2 on Monday morning, 18 June 2012, organised chaos reigns. There are horses and carts and people milling around everywhere. Today is an important occasion: It is Farrier Day! This means that the first twenty horses, in good condition, will receive…
On Sunday morning, 17 June 2012, Richard and I drive out to Somerset West/Gordon’s Bay. As part of my research for the Feature Writing Course I am currently enrolled in (see my previous post), I have arranged to meet Louis Joubert, the manager of the Cart Horse Protection Association‘s Recovery and Rehabilitation Centre at Firlands.…
Wednesday morning, 13 June 2012, finds me driving through to the clinic of the Cart Horse Protection Association in the light industrial area of Epping 2 on the Cape Flats. I am off to do my first formal interview(s) for the online feature writing course I told you all about in my previous post, and…
As I told you all in my previous post, I’ve registered for a Feature Writing Course with an online learning institution based in Cape Town, known as GetSmarter. I’ll be honest with you: I hadn’t anticipated that it would be quite this demanding and this much work. We are now reaching the end of Module…
Grains of Sand 