For years now I have noticed this cottage in a most charming setting next to the road just outside Knysna along the Garden Route. This time I pulled in and after an introduction, started snapping away at the Christians family and all the kids that soon arrived on the scene.
As with the Kannemeyer series, I have visited them again, and in the process got to know more of the family members and neighbours, adding more photos to their family album on each visit, and ocassionally landing a gem for myself.
The Christians have been living in this cottage at Bracken Hill for four generations, and Jerome is now the senior member, and lives here with his sister. He is here photographed with his cousin, Jeraldo, who has just returned from school.
After finishing high school, he did IT training for 18 months, but as reasonable jobs are hard to find, he now is a 'meter' at the local forestry station . That is someone who measures the tree trunks once they are felled, and calculates what best way to achieve maximum yield from the trunk.
Personally I am so glad that Jerome's picture was selected, as this gentle person served as my 'link' to this insular community as well as a similar one called Vrystaat up on a hill close by.