TĂ©lĂ©travail, Homeschooling and all that pertains to Covid-19

2020 dawned, with people full of positivity and wishes for a good start to the new decade.  But just as soon as we had got over our hangovers, and Christmas food belly’s, we started seeing news from China of this flu pandemic, the corona virus. To cut out all the rhetoric you already have read, … More TĂ©lĂ©travail, Homeschooling and all that pertains to Covid-19

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, the 2019 newsletter

Dear friends and family, My mom used to be a prolific writer, something she managed to instill in me and my siblings as children.  I guess 12 years of boarding school enforced in me a need to write, and back in the 1980’s and 1990’s, once we had made our treasured friendships, (only to be … More Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, the 2019 newsletter

Heritage Day

Thursdays are currently my Sunday, my one day off work where I don’t do anything unless its for me: go for a run; have a coffee date; sit on my terrace and write; binge watch tv; sew or even mundane stuff like the washing and cleaning. Between 8:30 and 15:00, my time is- for the … More Heritage Day

5 Years

As you are pretty much aware, I love myself a whole lot of Facebook (and Instagram). I spend an inordinate amount of time scrolling through my social media feeds: while waiting for the bus; while having my cup of coffee; while watching tv; while waiting for my baking timer to buzz; while reading boring books. … More 5 Years

Midsummer 2018

Hello my dear friends, As the winds blew me home last night and the wheat turned golden in the setting sun, I realised that the highlight of my European calendar these days is June 21st, midsummer. No doubt thanks to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream, the idea of magic under the fairy lights has appealed … More Midsummer 2018

To our Alex

Sunday 25 February, 2018. I took a photo of you today. Once again it epitomized your beautiful soul and I felt compelled to share it on Instagram. While searching for some words to describe you, I realised that it’s a week away from your birthday. I can’t really believe how time has crept up on … More To our Alex

January 2018

Hello my darling angel friends, I am having a truly lazy day.  It’s very much a me day, and I suspect that by the time I go to bed tonight, I may be slightly discomfited by the fact that I have achieved nothing.  Nah, scratch that thought.  I may very well have thrown our PC … More January 2018

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I currently have 2 blog posts sitting in my drafts folder that I have I undertaken to write since the end of summer. (Actually, make it 3, given I never got round to telling you my thoughts on our northern lands holiday.) However, they seem so so sadly pointless and lacking in guts and momentum, … More [please insert some random clichĂ©d title in here as you see fit]