My home sweet home

Pat Grunwald from Honeydew writes:

We have lived on a 5-acre small holding in Honeydew for 38 years and love the lifestyle and surroundings. Earlier challenges were boreholes running dry, veld fires and gravel roads being impassable because of heavy rain – but thankfully because of all the development in recent years, we now have municipal water to supplement our boreholes and some of the roads have been tarred.. The challenge now is to avoid the potholes! During a veld fire neighbours always came to help carrying wet sacks to help put the fires out.

Earlier this year, thanks to our councillor, street lighting was installed and this has greatly reduced the scourge of cable theft. City Power staff can only be praised for replacing cables time after time to assist us. Telkom “abandoned” the plot area years ago after replacing telephone cables almost every week. Thank goodness for cellphones!! After an attempted hijacking, we formed a WhatsApp group with our immediate neighbours and we keep in touch regularly. We have extended the WhatsApp group to include the next street as well and when there is a power failure someone in the area reports it and advises all of us the reference number.

We have the best of both worlds, space, birds, wonderful indigenous trees and fantastic shopping centres within a 10km radius. Where else would you find a neighbour on his tractor arriving on a Sunday morning to mow your lawn as he knew that my husband had had a hip operation and could not do it himself!! Here’s to the “ma-plotters”!!