Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder who is supposed to look after the little children. Especially now that there are three little girls living at Heavenly Haven. Where I’ve sort of known about their needs before, now more than ever I KNOW about their needs. From shampoo and toothpaste to underwear and socks – the list […]
Change the world one post at a time I spend a lot of time on social media sites. For one, I like being informed of current events, and social media is an almost instant conveyer of information. I believe Facebook is a platform for just that – sharing information, and chatting to other people. Lately, […]
Back in our day we didn’t do the green thing. I’m shamelessly borrowing this from one of my Facebook friends – it certainly made me think about whether new is necessarily better. Anyone over the age of 35 should read this. Checking out at the grocery store recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring […]
How many angels can dance on the head of a crochet needle I’ve always been addicted to wool. Give me a ball of yarn and a crochet hook and I will happily sit and churn out granny squares, which will then be converted into a blanket, a top, a scarf… the possibilities are endless. My […]
Why I am still in South Africa As a comparatively young professional with many of my peers overseas, I regularly get asked the ultimate question. No, it has nothing to do with the answer to life, the universe and everything (which, thanks to Douglas Adams, we all know by now is 42!) The question is […]
When charity destroys dignity I’m borrowing the title for my blog post from a well-known book: When Charity destroys Dignity – Glenn Schwartz. Although my post will be very different from the tone of the book (I read it and found it overbearing and difficult to process, but the title is certainly very striking and […]
Much ado about tomatoes I love making jams – I always have. As a little girl, I used to help my grandfather in our massive vegetable garden – we simply had loads of fig trees and rows of various vegetables. There is nothing that equals the taste of a ripe, sun-kissed fig freshly picked from […]
Do something extraordinary today! Each one of us has a bucket list, a wish list, a to-do list. We have lists of dreams of what we want to do, what we want to accomplish, where we want to go, what we want to see, to hear, to experience. The sad thing is that these lists […]
