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A touch of divinity at The Little Church Tea Garden in Van Reenen

April 21, 2016 6

In 1999 my father married Charlotte at the Little Church in van Reenen. It seats 8 people and is the smallest consecrated church in the Southern Hemisphere. When the minister walked in to the full church with guest spilling out the back door, to conduct the wedding ceremony, he exclaimed “Hallelujah! It’s a revival”. Caught up in wedding festivities …

Blue that it took so long to discover Green Lantern Inn

April 6, 2016 2

Discovering the Green Lantern Inn, in Van Reenen stirred unadulterated delight. This joy was marred by irritation and disappointment. How could we have missed this gem before?! We travel the Johannesburg / Durban route at least four times a year. I don’t even remember passing the Green Lantern signpost previously, so daft as the establishment has been around for well …

A South African wife, poet and mother. Sula was the founding member of the Durban Live Poets Society (LiPS) in 1995 which she headed until leaving Durban in 2000. She has had journal extracts published in Fair Lady Magazine and in the anthology “Glass Jars Among Trees” and her poetry, for which she has won several prizes, has been published in various South African and international anthologies. Sula is a loving mother to 4 children and loves hiking, the outdoors, reading, writing, cooking, baking and sewing. (written by my husband :) ) You can e-mail Sula at sula1968@gmail.com