Shift your junk

For the past week I have watched with interest a junk shop in Fish Hoek. Outside the shop is sitting a humongous object – I can’t decide if it is a bar or a display counter. Anyway it is circa 1970s with red faux velvet up the sides. The shop owner if hoping that someone [...]

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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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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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Secret Language

If you were to be a fly on the wall in our house you may need dictionaries from a few different languages. Ramos is the only one who is linguistically gifted – I’m pretty rubbish at picking up new languages, but somehow we have ended up speaking English with a twist – splattering of words [...]

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Heart Attack Prayers

  I remember it very clearly – it happened about 15 years ago when I took Mum to her first prayer meeting. It was a small meeting, mostly old faithfuls. As the meeting started and the first person started to pray I felt my mum grabbing my arm in a panic – she whispered, “He’s [...]

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