Jan 1 2012

Small moments

Sitting with my first cup of tea in 2012 this morning, I started looking at photos of the last few days and got side-tracked way back through what was 2011.

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Nov 29 2011

Go your own way

Since we’ve been in the far-off land of Kommetjie, the Barefoot man and I have started a new early morning ritual walking on the mountain with a good friend who also lives in the village, weather permitting. Continue reading


Sep 26 2011

Counting days

Contrary to what many of you may think, I am not actually counting days to the wedding! Interesting as all that is, there are far more pressing things to focus on just at the moment.

So here is the count:

2 years, 2 months, 22 days

OR

814 days

The amount of time that I have officially been peddling my branded trade without the cushion of a corporate salary.

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Jul 31 2011

How to move a couch

I have a couch. I realise that’s not really remarkable in the grand scheme of things, but the couch I have is a rather large specimen. A double-jointed 3+2 seater corner-unit large specimen of couch, to be precise. I bought it in Joburg for an enormous open-plan lounge, where it lived in all it’s Milo-brown sueded glory for a couple of years before I fell in love and moved to the Cape. At which point said enormous brown couch had to move to Cape Town too.

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Jun 30 2011

Tea and orchids

Mid June brings with it two things: the shortest (and usually coldest) day of the year, and the anniversary of my 21st birthday.  And both of these are excellent reasons to have tea.

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