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Quipidity ― Over the weekend my condo started making strange noises. Not the usual creaks and groans it makes, I’m used to those. Just odd noises and on several occasions the spare bedroom door would pop open for no reason. My bedroom … Continue...
Tags: Pondering Problems, Basset, Denial, Doors Pop Open, Strange Noises, WTF Was That
Quipidity ― 36 weeks ago
C is for Cape Town ― Sunday, aged two and a bit, decided to drop her afternoon nap. Her sister did the same thing at that age. ∙ I was 7 weeks pregnant at the time - can you feel my pain? ∙ I really thought Sunday would hang on longer. She loves(d)...
Tags: Blame It On The Hormones, Wtf Was That?, Sleep, Keeping It Real, Sunday, Blogging As Therapy
C Is For Cape Town ― 39 weeks ago
C is for Cape Town ― I've mentioned before how Friday's pretty clued up on the whole procreation thing. As illustrated by that experience, to my utmost relief at the time, she's still a little fuzzy about the actual mechanics, but she has the biology down pat. ...
Tags: Wtf Was That?, Friday, Talking With Kids, Reading, Learning All The Time
C Is For Cape Town ― 7 May, 12
C is for Cape Town ― I read an article a few weeks back, an opinion piece really, wherein the writer was commenting on some kid's atrocious behaviour in the KFC. I've searched but I can't find the article to link to - sorry - but the point was that the writer, and ...
Tags: Wtf Was That?, Discipline, Talking With Kids, Anti-hero, Learning All The Time, Smugness
C Is For Cape Town ― 16 Apr, 12
C is for Cape Town ― I really struggled to think of a title for this post whichwouldn’t attract all kinds of heinous Google searches ... ∙ I think I’ve done quite well considering the story (alltrue) to follow. ∙ A few weeks back, on a weekend morning I ...
Tags: Wtf Was That?, Friday, Keeping It Real, Talking With Kids, Learning All The Time
C Is For Cape Town ― 31 Jan, 12
C is for Cape Town ― You know, I've long thought I wouldn't blog about this, it felt a little like crossing a line and infringing on Friday's privacy. ∙ But then I thought hey, busloads of international tourists have borne witness to her propensity for having a...
Tags: Wtf Was That?, Keeping It Real, The Great Outdoors
C Is For Cape Town ― 25 Jan, 12
C is for Cape Town ― That it flummoxes me that 'the largest bird park in Africa and one of the few large bird parks in the World', which offers visitors the unique opportunity to view, amongst other wondrous creatures: Marabou Stork, Kookaburra, Cassowaries, Golden...
Tags: Wtf Was That?, Things To Do In Cape Town
C Is For Cape Town ― 8 Dec, 11
C is for Cape Town ― I had another post scheduled for Wednesday (now that I'm doing more regular non-blog writing I'll only be posting here 3 times a week for a while), but I couldn't let today go by unmarked. ∙ Was I the only person who spent this historic day ...
Tags: Blame It On The Hormones, Wtf Was That?, Keeping It Real, South Africa, Raising Girls
C Is For Cape Town ― 22 Nov, 11
C is for Cape Town ― Good neighbours that is. ∙ Late one night a few months back I heard the ominously distinctive noises of someone breaking into the house next door. I leaped from my warm bed, peered out the window, just in time to hear glass, a lot of glass,...
Tags: Observatory, Wtf Was That?, Anti-hero
C Is For Cape Town ― 12 Oct, 11
C is for Cape Town ― You know us humans are nasty, self-absorbed little critters. Well at least I am. ∙ As my girls grow up, especially as Sunday determinedly leaves the Baby Zone, every day life is getting decidedly easier. ∙ But do I notice this? Do I...
Tags: Wtf Was That?, My Mother, Learning All The Time
C Is For Cape Town ― 6 Oct, 11
C is for Cape Town ― Sunday celebrated her Heritage this weekend. ∙ She's an Anglo-Saxon so she likes the hunt ... ∙ She's a Boere-meisie so she likes handling livestock ... ∙ She's an African so she likes the chicken ... ∙ Chicken: What ...
Tags: Wtf Was That?, Fun, Sunday
C Is For Cape Town ― 2 Oct, 11
C is for Cape Town ― Some well meaning hippie gave Friday a tree this last weekend. We were at the Puppet Parade for the Out the Box Festival, a strange and beautiful event, when a woman dressed as a tree made out of recycled plastic bags started gathering all the...
Tags: Observatory, Wtf Was That?, My Mother, Talking With Kids
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