Today I did something I thought I would never do

I strapped a soft toy into the front seat of the car. Whenever I get in the car I strap Gorgeous Girl into her car seat, put on my own seatbelt and comment that we “never, ever get into a car without a seatbelt”. So today she insisted that her toy elephant sit in the [...]

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A drive in the country

The Western Cape of South Africa is a stunningly beautiful place. Where we live there are high mountains that meet the sea. I can see both mountains and oceans from my window while I’m working. However, there are also large flat areas that in spring have marvellous displays of wildflowers.
We recently took a drive to [...]

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I’m a farmer!

A worm farmer that is.
A few weeks ago Gorgeous Man and I bought a worm farm. I love it! I’ve been wanting a worm farm for a number of years and we were thrilled to find a guy that makes them locally.
Essentially it is three tubs on top of each other with a tap in [...]

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Puttering along

Do you ever feel like life is running a hundred metre sprint and you are stuck on  a treadmill frantically trying to keep up?
That’s been me for the last few weeks, nothing major going on (except for the car deciding to die while I was halfway through an intersection going up a hill – it’s [...]

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