The most amazing weather can be found in Plettenburg Bay in April. Maybe it is just that April is such a wonderful time of the year. It even enticed me to spent time on the beach…a great feat indeed! We stayed at JD’s sister’s place in Goose Valley, a golf estate, just on this side [...]
Categories: Personal reflections
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Tags: holidays
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Last weekend I found myself at the KKNK in Oudshoorn, my first visit to “Die Fees”. I was returning to my Afrikaans roots and looking to see if I can still relate and can possibly still feel at home between those who speak my mother tongue. I was also quite curious to investigate if I [...]
Categories: Inspirational, Personal reflections
| Tags: Chris chameleon, local artists, music
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It is quite a thrill to be driving in the middle of the Karoo and be so totally connected! Okay, a bit on the slow side, but hey, who can complain when I can still have access to my virtual self? I have been province hopping and hvae just returned from a quick sojourn back [...]
Categories: Personal reflections
| Tags: holidays
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I am sitting here in misty rainy Joburg and it makes me long for my favourite place…Hoggies! I have not been “home” for 2 months and I am so homesick. I will be there in 3 weeks time…but it is still soooo far away!!!! Let me go and look at my photographs…. www.ilifu.org.za
Categories: Hogsback, Personal reflections
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With Easter coming up, let us review the damage we do everytime we eat a bunny…
Categories: Family, Personal reflections
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My gallant effort to get my sister in law into technology was not quite a success! Neither of the two programmes were able to transcribe her brilliant piano playing into sheet music (that she could remotely recognise!) So instead we did our normal Verster thing and did a sing-along! I did, however, manage to record [...]
Categories: Family, Personal reflections
| Tags: podcast, singing
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I have been thinking of a way to get my family online for some time now and have created a social network for them at www.verster.co.za There have generally been an improved uptake from the Versterre, except, NOT my line of the Versterre. They still choose, and will defend their right, to be on smoke [...]
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I have created a blog for Jaap who died on Saterday night. I just felt he deserved his own space in the virtual world, although he would propably have been very comfortable between all my jokes here on my blog! Please go and leave messages for Sandra and the kids at http://www.jaap.iblog.co.za/ I will also post all [...]
Categories: Personal reflections
| Tags: funeral, goodbyes, Jaap
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As everybody know I have been on a blogging advocacy campaign for the last few months and I have recently been told (I won’t mention names unless I have to) to blog off! Now that is like a red cloth to a bull! So just to keep track of all my blogging progress, let me [...]
Categories: Personal reflections
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Statistically it had to happen. I have always hoped that my vicious dogs and children (not nessasarily in that order) could keep us save, but alas, we got burgled. But I am thankful. As we were in the house and sleeping, I am just grateful that my sleep were not interupted. I need my sleep. [...]
Categories: Personal reflections
| Tags: crime
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