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Category Archives: odd stuff
Patterns and circles
We had a lovely short downpour the other evening, filling the dips in the garden as well as giving my garden a decent watering. Being on sloping ground, it dries quickly so any rain is most welcome. I sat on … Continue reading
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A short’esh’ drive up the West Coast of South Africa
In the limited time between power cuts, putting together a blog post is challenging!!! On our recent trip to the Cape …. Driving up the West Coast from Cape Town is something hubby and I have never done and something … Continue reading
My first road race !!
This morning Jeanette and I participated in the Spars Women’s Race – I did the 5km and Jeanette did the 10km. Jeanette has been a member of Run/Walk for Life since the beginning of the year, increasing her distances gradually and doing extremely well, … Continue reading
My cousin Barry
While holidaying in Ballito, hubby and I drove down to Ramsgate on the South Coast to spend a couple of very special hours with my cousin, Barry We are all Rhodesian born and as children, we grew up together … … Continue reading
Wordless Wednesday : Popcorn pegs
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Making corrugated cardboard boxes
That’s what my younger brother does. As I said in my previous post, Ian was left jobless about 2 years ago and having worked in the cardboard box industry all his life, he knew there was a need for the … Continue reading
Posted in Cape, Ian, odd stuff, Somerset West
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Sparkling Monday
As Firefly says in his status on Facebook this morning …” it’s Monday ” Here’s to a sparkling one 🙂 !! I was going to leave it at that but can’t resist in adding a few more ‘blue’ photos 😉 some with … Continue reading
46664 Helping Hands t’shirt
The purpose of the 46664 fashion range is ‘to help sustain the organisations charged with helping to promote Nelson Mandela’s humanitarian legacy’ I bought Connor one of the kiddies t’shirts for Christmas, which he was wearing yesterday after school … … Continue reading
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Will my story become urban legend ?
I was in yoga class this morning and apart from the meditative music playing and the voice of our teacher directing us through the asanas, the roof started to creak. I still don’t know all the sanskrit words after all the … Continue reading
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Wordless Wednesday :
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