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This is Cape Town’s very best kept secret… While most folk want to visit in the heart of summer, when the wind blows and the heat is… well hot… the best time of year is now. Before the winter rains and after the Summer heat there is a perfect lull… of warm wind free days [...]

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I promised I would write a post on car maintenance… When I was in high-school, an all girls school for young ladies, we had a weekly class called Youth Preparedness, where we had to march up and down the hockey field in white boots brandishing sticks all in the name of drum majorettes. Can you [...]

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We are just finishing up our last two weeks of school for the year… I know it, our school spilled over a little bit into the next year but we were having such fun that it was well worth doing the extra time. I love the last couple of weeks of school because we finish [...]

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Yes we have been “River Cottaging Again” and this time we learnt all about eggs… Wow!!! What power packed little meals they are!!! First we had to discover where they come from: And for my urban kids… they weren’t too sure of those chickens!!! And then… I think one of my hoods is a bit [...]

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So it is time for another River Cottage Update… and we have mastered the next section in the book: Cheese!!!   Now the cheese section is a sub-section in the chapter on Milk and we learnt so much in the milk section that I thought everyone would want a bot of a break to consolidate… [...]

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One of my goals for school this year was to spice up our electives somewhat and do this the kids had on their “want to do list”… Cooking was number one!!! So we are working our way through The River Cottage Family Cookbook for school this year and it is the best fun we have [...]

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One of the things on our list of fun things to do this past school term was to work our way through this book: The first chapter was all about flour, who knew all there is to know!!! The different types of flour and which you use for which kind of recipe. And who knew [...]

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