Doing my part to conserve water.

Gorgeous Man left on Friday afternoon to spend the weekend presenting at a seminar in Durban. Saturday morning I woke up and as I was washing my hands noticed that the water coming out of the tap was slowing to a trickle and then stopped altogether.
We are without water again.
I raced around the house and [...]

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Lots to tell

For the last few weeks, I’ve been faxing and phoning and dealing with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to convince them to let some boxes of bears from Sonnja into the country without charging us import duty on them.
Karol-Ann and I were going to deliver them on Sonnja’s behalf to some sick children. The [...]

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The mojo returns

I should begin by reassuring you all that we do have water. It came back on 2 days after my last post, so we were waterless for 6 days in all. But I have water now and, as Gorgeous Man pointed out, at least this year we have electricity.
My quilting mojo seems to have returned [...]

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I would like…

I would like to show you a picture of my ‘lace’ wrap all nicely blocked.
I would like to show you a picture of my lovely new haircut.
I would like to show you a picture of my lovely new glasses.
But it takes water to block a scarf. I refuse to have my picture taken before my [...]

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Gentle reminder

Just popping in to say that if you are knitting scarves for the Scarves for Africa project I’d appreciate it if you could get them in the post this week. Thank you.
Leave me a comment if you need my postal address.
The plan is to hand them over to Feeding Children in Africa in the first [...]

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