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On Saturdays we like to post a place that we have visited that week or a little corner of our home… This past week we visited so many places, nothing spectacular… just the beach and around about!!! The point is we did so many things that I just couldn’t decide on a Saturday Spot… after [...]

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For a long time we had more than a few folk that were too little to go for anything other than the shortest walk. Suddenly my kids are old enough to go for a walk in the neighborhood with only one person needing a ride from time to time… we are mostly mobile!!! And so [...]

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After three years of a thriving keyhole garden we had a serious crop fail!!! Not only did our plants fail to thrive but they were eaten alive. Followed by a young man in a plaster cast for weeks and no trips out into the garden to grub around, for obvious reason. It was time to [...]

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So I asked you all should we or shouldn’t we and the consensus was an overwhelming: “Just do it…” Thanks guys!!! So “we are in” on the Great Garage Clean Out Challenge… Though not in a “stop the traffic” kind of way, just a “this is what needs to be done and this is what [...]

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This week nineteen years ago we spent ten days holidaying in a wooden chalet on the shores of the Knysna lagoon. Yes it was idyllic and yes we did cook off Le Creuset pots the entire time – that’s all they had!!! And yes I am that minimalist and simply forgot to pack a thing [...]

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My summer reading plan was well thought out and carefully preprepared!!! It involved a weekly trip to the library: One evening each week we headed out and filled our quota of books then we headed home to hours of silence!!! Whatever the kids selected we read… and read and read… I have to declare we [...]

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I have to say that as our school year drew to a close last year so a lot of the projects around our house slowed to a halt. In the last couple of weeks we have been doing one major project each week to catch up and we are finally getting things done! I guess [...]

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