I thought I would finish up our South Africa week with a look at what the South African National Parks have to offer us. Now you know I am always bemoaning the cost of local sites and the fact that all our sites are geared to tourists paying in Dollars or Pounds and that they [...]
Saturday Spot: Wild Card and Potential Outings…
February 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Saturday Spot: Maynardville, Shakespeare under the stars…
February 1st, 2010 · 4 Comments
We live with a Shakespeare addict! It all began when he was about five and you can follow his journey from comic books to the real thing in this past post. By the time he was six he had devoured Shakespeare and we have lived with his quotable quotations ever since…
Grab your tickets:
Because, once a [...]
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Saturday Spot: Se7en visit the Cape Winelands…
January 11th, 2010 · 11 Comments
A couple of weeks back, when I thought the father person would be bringing me flowers he bought me this very fancy camera instead. It is all about “scale of expectation,” I tell you!!!
And in the box was a slip of paper that said free camera training with your purchase… My camera knowledge is so [...]
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Saturday Spot: Clifton Beach and Krugmann’s Grill
January 4th, 2010 · 8 Comments
This post should be entitled how to get eight children to sleep late, really late in the morning!!! I have been asked so many sleep questions lately I thought I would show you exactly how we get our kids to sleep…
I just need to mention a little proviso and say that Cape Town’s beach world [...]
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Saturday Spot: Se7en Do Christmas Shopping and Feasting Around Cape Town…
December 14th, 2009 · 6 Comments
So Christmas is looming and while we make most of our gifts and totally believe that gifts should be home made from the heart we do like to shop and buy a couple of little things.
This past week was our week for Christmas shopping… we actually do have a plan! I always try and [...]
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Se7en visit the Foresters Arms…
December 1st, 2009 · 19 Comments
The Father Person will bring me flowers today. He always does on 1 December. Because about a million years ago when we were young we officially got engaged on 30 November/1 December.
In brief: Went on a five day hike with some friends and after long and arduous wandering he said to me: “You have [...]
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Saturday Spot: Coffee – Vida Is It…
October 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Did I ever mention that we love coffee…
If we have to go out for coffee then our favorite spot, by far, is Vida…
Quite simply a mother person needs encouragement before facing that monthly shop!
So while we have coffee the hoods have Chocolate Quente (hot chocolate) and I had a Chocolate Frio (basically an [...]
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