by Peter van der Walt | Jun 28, 2022 | Photos
A wall so thick you can sleep on the window sill – that’s what I’m talking about. Don’t make em like they used to, none of this flimsy cowboy contractor Chinese supplied nieu-plywood thingies, no sir. We’re not just building a building...
by Peter van der Walt | Oct 20, 2021 | Photos
Eating lunch or dinner in a formal dining room can be very exciting. If you are born into the vanishing aristocracy, its all par for the course. But alas, for a colonial mongrel from dubious pedigree, such as myself, it is all very educational, entertaining and...
by Peter van der Walt | Oct 4, 2021 | Photos
Nostalgia just aint what it used to be… There is something about old buildings that can take me right back in time, though. I can feel a city or village 300, 400, 500 years back… sense the air of a world without the tech we’ve grown accustomed to,...