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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Orang-utans, Gollum and Stuff.

Today my arms are sore. I think by the end of this move I will be walking like an Orang-utan. As I was packing up our books into bags, carrying them to the far away car and then into the new house I was surprised by how many books we have and how heavy they [...]

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What I forgot to remember.

Do you ever have a month when it feels like nothing goes the way you planned it? It feels like whatever you set out to achieve fails and obstacles keep jumping in your way. That is how I have been feeling this week. We are getting the keys to our new house today, but no [...]

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Burdensome Stuff

I spent a sad night last night – sleeping over at a friend’s house who just lost her husband the night before. She is in her 70s and was married for about 55 years. What I discovered was that with marriage comes an abundance of stuff – nick naks, hobbies, things that might be useful, all collected just in [...]

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