Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in…

In the last two weeks one of my friends has had her house broken into while they were sleeping upstairs (thieves got away with purse, wallet and passport, and went through their basket of folded laundry and threw it into the pool) and one of my staff members had her house broken into while she [...]

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The world’s most expensive cat

 Fat Boy is working at cementing his place as the World’s Most Expensive cat.
10.30 last night he somehow managed to get his leg stuck between our mattress and the end of the bed. He hung upside-down for a second before limping off into the corner of the living room. Poor thing couldn’t put any weight [...]

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First baby purchase…

When we found out I was pregnant, the first things we bought werebooks. Hardly surprising for two historians (yes, I’m currently working as an English teacher, but history is my passion) who shipped more books to South Africa than anything else.
In other news, I received a wee tiny sock in the mail
it’s very cute. [...]

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Thank you

Thank you everyone for you congratulations and kind words. My most comments on a post ever! Must have been the announcement of a life changing event.
I got a package in the mail a few days ago, a box weighing 2.9 kilos from Australia. When I opened it up this fell out:
A friend of mine [...]

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Too subtle for my own good…

Sometimes I’m too subtle for my own good. As some of you surmised from yesterday’s post there is going to be offspring arriving in early October.
The official due date is the 9th (I think it’s the 4th) since my birthday is the 11th Gorgeous Man keeps saying that I’m going to get a birthday [...]

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Poetry

Gorgeous Man wrote a haiku:
Tiny fluttering
heart beats fast in black and white
Miracle of life.
See you tomorrow.

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Yarn stores in Washington DC?

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, Gorgeous Man is heading to the USA shortly to attend a conference in Alabama. He is also going to be stopping in DC to do some research at the Library of Congress and has consented to go yarn shopping for me while he is there.
Can anyone [...]

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A day out

Yesterday we took the students to the South African Museum after that we had lunch in The Company Gardens. We had wonderful weather and this was the view:
That’s Table Mountain. After lunch we took a walk up to Long Street (and yes, it is very long). Long Street is a quite tourist focused and [...]

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I am so spoilt, and lucky…

My swap package arrived yesterday. I started smiling as soon as I picked up the parcel from the mail room. I recognised the address as coming from Starfish, who also posted to me in Favourite Colour Swap 1. True to form, I didn’t make it out of the building before unwrapping the package (very low [...]

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A Book meme

I am formulating a response to the comments left in the last post, but I want to think about that for a bit longer. In the meantime here’s a book meme.
Look at the list of (100) books below.
Bold the ones you’ve read.
Italicize the ones you want to read.
Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested [...]

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