And the loadshedding is back

Hello darkness my old friend

Photo by Carolinie Cavalli on Unsplash

It is early evening in our corner of Cape Town’s southern Peninsula, in South Africa at the southwestern tip of the African continent before reaching the Atlantic Ocean beyond.

I am busy writing, while the kettle is perched outside on my camping stove in the garden. It is on a picnic table shaded by the fresh green leaves of a grape vine.