Monthly Archives: September 2008

Low flying on the N10…

It’s 18:27 and we’re still probably several hours away from Port Elizabeth despite driving ‘hell for leather’. We’re meeting up with a friend there and as we’re off again tomorrow for Knysna we’d like to spend a bit of time … Continue reading

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“Jou Ma se Detour”

Standerton – detours and no road signs – recipe for getting lost. And we did get lost. Tried asking a bloke meandering down the road how to get to Vrede – he looked a bit nonplussed, waved his arms vaguely … Continue reading

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Eating out

Jeff took us out to dinner the two nights we stayed with him, the first night we tried a new Portuguese restaurant – literally around the corner from him. Nicely decorated, service was good and the food was nice. Jeff … Continue reading

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“Where the streets have no name”

The trip has been somewhat hectic so far – a lot of driving around – well it took us 15 hours to get to Rustenburg having left Bellville at 4 in the morning – we spent the evening chatting with … Continue reading

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Things that scare in the night…

I’m pretty sure that when one is sitting with one’s child on one’s lap at 2:00 am because she’s battling to sleep and her coughing is keeping her up and the only way she seems able to get some sleep … Continue reading

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Catch up post

Murphy struck over the weekend, Saturday morning I was up really early – partly because I couldn’t sleep anymore and partly because I had to be off early to assist with a training course that had been arranged for some … Continue reading

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What to do if this happens to you…

Ever been in the situation where you were entrusted to sell a motor vehicle, which you’d been driving for several years but was still registered in your mother’s name, you then lost any buyer details you might have had and … Continue reading

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Summer is almost here… yay!

 I took this picture on the way to work this morning – what a pleasure to be able to drive without the incessant rain, although the weather man tells me it is going to rain on Sunday again. *sigh* Salivary … Continue reading

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Is it ever going to stop raining?

I am so heartily sick of the rain, it just keeps on coming – day after day after day. Enough now! There is one thing I will not miss when we move into the Fish Hoek house (okay apart from … Continue reading

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Blogs…. & the pressure to perform

On the side of my blog there is this nifty little widget (hang on lemme quickly google to make sure I’m using the word correctly) Amazing what you learn…. did you know that a widget amongst other things is…. Widget … Continue reading

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