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So it is June and another Birthday in the family… Happy Brilliant Birthday to Hood #4… My incognito child… My collector of many hats child… My dying to learn the piano child… My just can’t ever stop running child… My dreamy, loves creating his own world’s child… And Lego is the route to all inventions [...]

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Fathers are full-time parents, who deserve so much more than socks one Sunday a year. I can never understand why folk ask my husband if he is babysitting when he is out with our gang… “Is he babysitting?” I don’t think so. Babysitting just sounds like “not quite parenting.” Sort of a stand-in for the [...]

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Happy Birthday to Hood #2… My wonderfully wild child… Not ever scared to take a leap child… Really… My loves a good competition child… Any race will do child… My totally into technology child… My I can draw almost anything child… My I love a good photo walk child… My always up to tricks child… [...]

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You know we are fans of Yuppie Chef… and you know we love a fabulous project… and you know we love things like growing your own garden… and you put all those things we love into one glorious Eat For The Earth Event… The project is inspired… a number of folk, anyone who wants to [...]

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I was absolutely devastated to hear of the awful accident and the loss of my friend Kathreen and her husband, at WhipUp. Good friends, we swapped posts from time to time and emailed frequently. Our daughters are friends across the ocean. Honestly I am so deeply sad and do not have words to say. Only [...]

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If you mention Anthony Horowitz in our house then all ears perk up. When we heard he would be in Cape Town for the Franschhoek Literary Festival we were so excited. And when PanMacmillan South Africa asked us if we would like to interview him… it was a unanimous “YES”… and then we waited months [...]

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Let’s just say I am not always the best at remembering significant dates, but I have wanted to write that post title for so long. Then again, who has something significant to write about from twenty whole years ago… but it feels like yesterday… What is it about all the significant things that happen in [...]

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