Pink or Blue??

  I have a bit of a dilemma – not a life or death one – more of a ‘is it boy or is it a girl one’. You see we are expecting our first baby in March and amongst all the excitement there is one question that keeps rearing its head. ‘Do you know [...]

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Gold fish & Happy Endings

We didn’t have many pets when I was small – we had James the escapologist Labrador who went to live on a farm, a tribe of stick insects who ended up massacred by accidental poisoning and a few gold fish. One particular gold fish met a spectacular end. Mum came home one day from work [...]

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Rhubarb & endurance

One of the draw backs of living in South Africa is not always being able to find foods that I was found of growing up. In this last two weeks I have been on a bit of a Rhubarb binge – it is not often found in the shops here and when it appears, however [...]

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My umbrella by the door

As I have said before I am not the world most patient person. For example when I have grown a veggie garden it has taken all my energy not to dig down to look at the seeds to see if there are any signs of growth. Ramos jokes that the plants only grow because I [...]

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Cell phones: a blessing or a curse?

I have been thinking about cell phones – are they a good thing or a bad thing? Ramos has been travelling very slowly back from Malawi, due to a dodgy tailor, and his cell phone is out of battery so I have to wait for him to call me. When he passed through Zimbabwe we were out of [...]

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Patience

Ramos is delayed in Mozambique dealing with police paperwork to de-register our truck – this means that he is 2 days later than I expected. I hate waiting and I hate being late. How do you get to the stage were you are at peace with waiting? I get panicky when there are delays, but [...]

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