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Spooked

Dodging between hefty showers, and wrapped up rather warmly, we indulged Alex’s wish to take a walk around the Aguhas Ghost Trail. We had a great time in the hills above the village, but what I had thought would be a kilometre wander with the kids, turned into a 4.5km trail through dense bush, up [...]

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Birthday Boy

Alex turned six this week and (coincidentally) on his birthday, enjoyed a school trip to Butterfly World. As you can see – some butterflies are apparently big enough to require additional strength from an extra arm.

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Best job?

Right. Mixed feelings about this one, as those of you who will read my recent guest post on RattleandMum will understand: It’s a brilliant ad (Mrs 6000 is still sobbing), with brilliant music: ‘Divenire’ by Ludovico Einaudi (the reason I found it, by the way), and yes, maybe being a Mum is the hardest job in [...]

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Fish

Continuing our piscine theme from yesterday, we bought and set up a fishtank ahead of Alex’s birthday later this week. No actual fish yet, but we’ll get them once the water has sorted itself out. It’s currently full of chlorine and devoid of helpful microorganisms. Hopefully by the day of his actual birthday, we’ll be [...]

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Yellow Ring

Although the individual photos at the kids’ school were taken last term, the annual group school photo, featuring every teacher and pupil, was done this morning. And, to celebrate the Olympic year, the photo was taken in Olympic Ring formation. Each class was allocated one of five Olympic colours and the kids were asked to [...]

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