Ant Massacre

Yes it was me – I am fully responsible for the recent massacre of ants in our kitchen. I grew fed up with their burrowing in the sugar jar, queuing up to the grocery cupboard and their sneaky infiltration of our fridge! I did try surface spray to dissuade them from coming in but they [...]

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The Movement of Christmas

I associate the build up to Christmas with movement – hustle and bustle, busyness. Rushing to the shops to make sure that you have everything you need, trying to get to the post office to post cards in time for the international delivery dates (sorry didn’t make that one!). Going from one social gathering to [...]

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Blogging Break

Hi there, I have decided to take a rest from blogging for a bit. Life is a wee bit hectic at the moment and I have found myself struggling to get posts out and wondering what to say. With baby stuff on my mind and other ordinary life pressures I find myself in a position [...]

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Sleepy Head

  Some people don’t realise it but I could have had an illustrious career as a tambourine player, but my career never quite took off. When I was six years old my school was to take part in a concert. While some boys and girls danced to the finger polka (the girls has margarine tubs [...]

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Do it yourself fingers

Sometimes a girl has to do what a girl has to do. Yesterday I discovered a tap at the church was broken – the teeth inside all crumbled due to overuse so I went and bought a replacement and popped it on. It is funny some people’s reaction – they had thought it better to [...]

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Hunger Pains

Why is it when you have a big meal and have eaten more than your fill, the next you wake up ravenous? We had a lovely meal out last night – we even stretched to two courses, which is very unlike the us to splash out – but this morning I woke up with a [...]

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Available to be interrupted #oneword

We had a very odd Christmas Day this year. As usual it was just Ramos and I after church. We are still trying to work out an Irish Malawian tradition for Christmas lunch – it is too hot in Cape Town for a traditional Roast Turkey for the Irish & Beef Stew for the Malawian. [...]

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Even if it makes no difference?

It seems to me that most of us have a deep longing to make a difference in the world – that our journey through should leave a foot print of some kind that makes the world a better place. We want to leave legacies, to have a bench named after us, for someone to recognise [...]

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Tired of waiting?

I’m not great at languages but today I am tired, baie moeg, ndatopa – no matter which way you look at it I’m pooped! It has not been a particularly hectic week so I don’t know why I’m so tired. One theory is that the sun is up so early here in Cape Town that [...]

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Nice but dim?

Last night we returned home with bellies full of fish and chips to total darkness. As we drove closer to our house the streetlights were off and a few houses had glowing candles in the windows. With help of cell phones we found our way down the garden to our house and I went straight [...]

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