Not even load shedding or the recent weeks’ heavy rain could stop a Fochville family from sharing their Christmas joy with other residents.
Motorists or pedestrians passing Ms Karin Visser’s house on Kraalkop Street in Fochville stop to look at the lovely Christmas lights in the garden.
Besides the huge cross, the focal point of the display, numerous other Christmas decorations flicker colourfully.
Visser says she wanted to stop putting up the lights after last year’s display, but her daughter and friends persuaded her to continue.
The lights will be up until 1 January again at times when there is no load shedding, even when it rains.
“If there is Eskom, there will be lights,” Visser laughed.
She previously explained that putting up the Christmas lights was the passion of her late husband, Tom, who passed away last year.
He had ensured that the lights were up every year for the nine years they had lived in the house.
Before moving to Fochville, the family lived in Welverdiend, where they also put up lights every year at their house near the tennis court on 11th Avenue.