A return to a world before noise broke nature’s silence
The profound stillness at Letskraal contains the chatter of birds and the clatter of the windpump
15 November 2023 - 05:00
It’s midnight on the wrong side of the tracks. A late-night cargo flight has roared overhead at full climb power. A couple of sport bikes are dicing down the M5, the howl of their engines slicing open the night. The fridge chatters. The cat scratches at a piece of packing tape in a cardboard box. The hamster is running on his hand-built wooden wheel. Clunk-clunk-clunk goes the wheel.
At 5am the first train hoots for the level crossing. Two long blasts of the airhorn, three if there’s a brave car driver trying to slip past the booms...
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