Blog Posts

  • Sitting on the Dock of the Bay

    I am so lucky to live in a fishing village where we can get amazing fresh seafood. My daughter Caitlin has just become pescetarian (eats only fish and seafood, veg and dairy.) The rest of us have sort of followed suit just as it is simpler. We have had a week of Pescetarian Heaven. I…

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  • Waltzing Mathilda

    I was invited to attend the Theatre Dinner Evening at The Mount Nelson Hotel last Tuesday with my friend Retha.     It’s a new concept for the hotel I understand and is held  at Planet Restaurant every Tuesday evening from 5 May to 9 June 2015. The evening is priced at R450 per person.  ‘The Summer of 1946’…

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  • 9 Lives

    What an odd week I’ve had. Norm has been away since last Sunday. It’s so hard to do everything on my own. Usually we ask Lily to be here but this is her last week to be in George as she starts her new job soon. She is going to be working for a concierge…

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  • A Day For Freedom

    A Day For Freedom

    Today is Freedom Day in South Africa so we get a 3 day weekend. Freedom Day celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994. The elections were the first national elections where everyone of voting age of over 18 from any race group was allowed to vote. Even women 😉.…

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  • Keeping Watch

    Keeping Watch

    Tonight is date night. I’m not sure where we are going yet but we have plenty of options in Hout Bay. It’s been a bit overcast and chilly today. The weather has suddenly shifted in Cape Town, one week it is so hot we are still sitting by the pool and wearing flip flops and…

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