Ten items or less

I confess – yesterday I went through the ‘Ten items or less checkout’ with twelve items. It is very unlike me to do something so terrible – as I counted the items coming through I felt terrible. No one was behind me in the queue and my faux pas was not intentional – yet I [...]

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My singing washing machine

I made a lovely discovery this weekend – the sound of a little electronic tune drifted from our kitchen to my ears – my new-to-me washing machine sings a song when it has finished its job! I went on a cleaning frenzy and then realised that I also needed to go on an ironing frenzy. [...]

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Feeding your monster?

One of my exciting tasks over the weekend was cleaning out the fridge – there was an odour that couldn’t be identified by sniffing objects in the fridge so it was time to do a proper cleanout. When I pulled out the vegetable drawers I found two inches of ice in the bottom along with [...]

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Little crosses – condemn or restore?

Something unusual and striking appeared outside our church on Sunday.  Where people normally park their cars there was instead row after row of small white crosses. About 300 crosses to represent the approximately 2000 babies legally aborted in our area since abortion was legalised in South Africa. Signs hang in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa explaining [...]

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Weakness brings healing.

  I’m not perfect – when I was in school my hair refused to be tamed or contained and my shirt tail never would stay tucked in. Now I’m older I have given into the windswept look and I have decided that life is too short to straighten hair. Being perfect can be tiring! Actually, [...]

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Gluttoney, the not so secret sin.

I was reading an article about all the strange deaths of groups of animals over the new years and this one about Turtle Doves caught my eye.   Very strangely the reason for the death of these birds is indigestion due to overeating. I have been thinking lately about how gluttony has been taken off the sin [...]

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Porcupines make rubbish Bin Men!

This weekend was hot and I was lazy, but last night at 2.30am I paid for my laziness. I had given the house a quick clean during the day – just the type of lick & polish to keep things presentable until you actually have time to do a good job. Instead of taking our [...]

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The Anthem of me?

If you know me or have read my blog you may be aware that sometimes my brain works in funny ways. Yesterday was a public holiday so I did a wee bit of Christmas shopping and as I was leaving the mall I discovered that I was humming a tune – but to my shock [...]

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Dancing close to danger – exploding TVs

It finally happened – we knew it would but I guess we were in denial. For months our TV has been making cracking sounds we turn it on. With trepidation we took turns poking the on button and running to hid behind the sofa. We knew it would eventually blow but the combination of an [...]

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Junk Fires and Power Supplies

Perhaps you are wondering why things are so silent here. Well, my caution about gathering too much ‘stuff’ turned out to be timely. I work at a church and for most of last week we have been without electricity – no email, no internet, no computers, no telephone and no door bell! You see the [...]

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