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The Week That Was – 2.8

August 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments

So here we are – wet and freezing.

The only thing worth doing during our dreadful weather is to sit on the couch and read and read and read….

The biggest event of the week was that someone discovered balloons! And boy did she discover them.

A couple of other people had a great balloon play too!

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Busy, Busy, Busy… this was our science week and not a single experiment came to pass – unless of course watching raisins rise and fall in a glass of soda counts. Yup, that counts but doesn’t really put a dent into the number of pending experiments!!! But you will have to look at our mid-winter [...]

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The Week That Was – 2.3

July 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments

A typical South African wintry week…

With torrential rain and flooding. Not to mention should you have an old stone wall in your kitchen, backing straight onto the mountain you will have “a river running through” luckily down the wall, across the floor and out the door – clever engineering!!! And Hood #7 thought she had [...]

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The Week That Was – 2.2

July 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments

So it is Saturday morning and we are all glued to Inspector Clouseau, let’s see if I can write a post before he finds “The Tornado”…

Another sunny week in the midst of winter – it hasn’t even been that cold and the Hoods have had a mad week of torch tag on dark winter evenings.
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Week That Was – 2.1

July 5th, 2009 · No Comments

A year of blogging, and another week that was… If you want to join our tea towel swap… and we would love you to, then please please go and comment on our blogaversary post.

Last week I was bemoaning the wintry weather and this week we had glorious sunshine the whole week. Can you believe we [...]

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The Week That Was – 52

June 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Welcome to the Cape of Storms… we had a week of fantastic stormy weather and I say fantastic because we didn’t have to go anywhere or do anything, so we didn’t actually have to be out in it!

So we stayed home, snuggled down, hot water bottle, hats, blankets, couch, beds and books, books, books…

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The Week That Was – 50…

June 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments

So here we are a week of sunshine in the middle of winter. We are back to a wild storm but it sure gave me a chance to have a blanket washing frenzy and generally recover from some serious dampness.

This was our haunting ground Kalk Bay last week. It really has been a bit wet [...]