Friday Night !!!
I was asked by a relatively new friend of mine Sandy Bigara ... to photograph the launch of her book Thorngate ... (now there's another new one for me !!!)
Yes ... now I'm hob nobbing with the rich and famous ... I'm sure I can hear Sandy saying "not so much of the rich just yet" LOL
What a beautiful venue - Upton Hall in Durban ... stunning setting for the launch ... met some really lovely people too and I received a signed copy of the book ... Sandy tempted us by reading some inserts from the book (now I want to get reading) ... and she's already working on the sequel !!!
... a thoroughly enjoyable evening ...
Monday, 31 October 2011
Monday ... again !!!
How is it possible that these Mondays come around so fast ???
And there I was thinking yet again ... and I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record ... that I had so little planned for the next couple of months ... that I would have all this time to blog... HA!
The last 2 weeks have seen :
*** Juno finally open her little business ... T-Zone ... a place for tots, tweens & teens ... suits her down to the ground as she has one of each LOL ... and wishing her all the success... I'm sure she will do well. (me feeling just a little jealous ...she's done it and I'm still procrastinating LOL)
*** The end of the 2011 RWC ... no more early rises to watch a bunch of gorgeous hunky men chasing odd shaped balls LOL ... roll on RWC 2015 in England !!!
*** The end of our Hillcrest Villagers Junior Rugby season with a prize giving this weekend ... and Kelsey decided he was rather going away for the weekend with Heini ... as he didn't think he was going to get any award ... and mum sitting there (as she's on the committee) feeling a little embarrassed and having to explain that he was not there to receive his 'Most Dedicated U14 Player' award !!! Teenagers !!! Grrrr ....
*** The Twins & Paul's 40th's ... Paul not being here AGAIN to celebrate his birthday ... but we went and celebrated Lawrence's with him ... a couple of delicate heads the next day I'm sure !!! Not me !!!
*** Me getting my first Christmas Fix for 2011... Christmas through the Home ... oooops blew the budget like x 3 !!! Oh well ... in Paul's favourite words ... it's only money and when its gone it gone !!!
Then last week holding my first SA Card Making Class ... had 9 fantastic ladies who were soooo enthusiastic and wonderful pupils ... it makes it soo much easier when you have pupils who are willing to learn and these ladies were like sponges just soaking up all the ideas !!! (it was like teaching craft virgins LOL ... I walked away on Thursday asking myself why have I left it so long !!! I really love teaching !!!)
AS well as in between all this planning my Christmas Workshop which is on Saturday 3rd December ... packing CHRISTMAS stock, packing kits ... sorting in the garage some more ... finding things that I had forgotten I had !!! ...
and so on, and so on,and so on !!!
The only other thing I just have to mention ... the BAD, CRAP, SHITE weather !!! It has rained for the past 2 weeks alomost non-stop ... I swear if I stand outside I can see the grass growing in inches before my eyes !!! everwhere is lush and green ... and my house looks like a mud run !!! With the damned dogs in and out ... who was so stoopid to choose cream rugs ????
And there I was thinking yet again ... and I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record ... that I had so little planned for the next couple of months ... that I would have all this time to blog... HA!
The last 2 weeks have seen :
*** Juno finally open her little business ... T-Zone ... a place for tots, tweens & teens ... suits her down to the ground as she has one of each LOL ... and wishing her all the success... I'm sure she will do well. (me feeling just a little jealous ...she's done it and I'm still procrastinating LOL)
*** The end of the 2011 RWC ... no more early rises to watch a bunch of gorgeous hunky men chasing odd shaped balls LOL ... roll on RWC 2015 in England !!!
*** The end of our Hillcrest Villagers Junior Rugby season with a prize giving this weekend ... and Kelsey decided he was rather going away for the weekend with Heini ... as he didn't think he was going to get any award ... and mum sitting there (as she's on the committee) feeling a little embarrassed and having to explain that he was not there to receive his 'Most Dedicated U14 Player' award !!! Teenagers !!! Grrrr ....
*** The Twins & Paul's 40th's ... Paul not being here AGAIN to celebrate his birthday ... but we went and celebrated Lawrence's with him ... a couple of delicate heads the next day I'm sure !!! Not me !!!
*** Me getting my first Christmas Fix for 2011... Christmas through the Home ... oooops blew the budget like x 3 !!! Oh well ... in Paul's favourite words ... it's only money and when its gone it gone !!!
Then last week holding my first SA Card Making Class ... had 9 fantastic ladies who were soooo enthusiastic and wonderful pupils ... it makes it soo much easier when you have pupils who are willing to learn and these ladies were like sponges just soaking up all the ideas !!! (it was like teaching craft virgins LOL ... I walked away on Thursday asking myself why have I left it so long !!! I really love teaching !!!)
AS well as in between all this planning my Christmas Workshop which is on Saturday 3rd December ... packing CHRISTMAS stock, packing kits ... sorting in the garage some more ... finding things that I had forgotten I had !!! ...
and so on, and so on,and so on !!!
The only other thing I just have to mention ... the BAD, CRAP, SHITE weather !!! It has rained for the past 2 weeks alomost non-stop ... I swear if I stand outside I can see the grass growing in inches before my eyes !!! everwhere is lush and green ... and my house looks like a mud run !!! With the damned dogs in and out ... who was so stoopid to choose cream rugs ????
Monday, 17 October 2011
Time, Time, Time ...
It just never seems to be on my side these days ... we're already into week 2 of the last term of our school year ... I mean seriously ... feels like only yesterday that we were stressing about 'going to High School' and here we are with the year almost over!!!
Last term means we have a year end exams ... so lots of studying ahead of us ... Grrrr ... but as Kelsey has done so well so far this year I'm going to try not to stress too much about that .... well not just yet anyway ...
Last week just seems to have flown over ... once it was back to school and the routine kicked in ... I had all these good intentions of doing soooo much ... I mean my to do list just seems to be getting longer not shorter ...
Monday morning I had to take Kleo back to the vets ... when we woke up she was 'bleeding' and not from her wound !!! in the human world we would have said 'ladies problems' !!! Vet put her on a course of anti-biotics, gave her a shot and re-dressed her paw ... oh did I mention we'd taken her to be spayed ... and have a growth removed from her front paw ... anyway she's all better now ... and today she had all her stitches removed ... she did look so cute with her little sock on ... only dog I know who does NOT object to being dressed up ... she's a strange one ... probably why she fits into this crazy family so well LOL !!!
Then ... the new car ... oh did I mention that one ??? The day Paul arrived he was informed "Come Hell or High water you're not getting back on a plane unless I have a 2nd car on my driveway ... you have no idea how difficult my life is without transport nag nag nag nag !!!!" *in moaning wife voice* and OMG he took me seriously ... mind you the fact that he was with us when we broke down at 9pm at night in the middle of Durban ... when had he not been with us it would have been just K & Me !!! and then have to get towed back to Hillcrest and spend 2 days without a car here ... as nasty as it sounds .... maybe Karma was on my side for a change ... so the last week Paul was here we were car hunting ... and way got me another car ... not new 2nd hand but a hell of a lot better(No not better just more reliable than mine) ... a Nissan Murano ... and I would take a photo and post it on here to brag about it ... but I don't have it AGAIN !!! ... well through Paul's power of persuasion had it for the last weekend he was here ... but there were 'things' that Nissan needed to put right on it !!! so I had to take it back on Monday ... and here I am a whole week later and I still don't have it back ..... welcome to Africa ... H U A W !!!
The rest of the week went really well ... and the fact that the sun has shone all week ... with temperatures in the higher 20's and odd 30 ... just made it a really nice week ...
Thursday I met up with a great bunch of ladies ... Adele ... one of the rugby mums told me about the group she met with on a regular basis ... they're all card makers and are all self taught... swapping ideas between them ... well Adele told me about them and them about me and they invited me to pop along and have a chat with them ... what a great and productive morning ... managed to share quite a few ideas just in our first session and now we're going to be meeting once a month for 'Card Making Classes' .... wahooo ... the teacher in me jumping up and down !!!
Then this weekend saw Kelsey playing his last match for the season ... another wahooo ... a couple of months of no rugby ... well no being a rugby mum as such ... although they have started pre - pre-season training ... please don't make me explain that one ... so he is still 'keeping fit' ...
unfortunately they lost their last match 17-5 but they were an U14 squad playing against a touring U15 squad ... and boy those U15 were HUGE !!! so I think they did really really well ... although there's no more rugby I've still got committee meetings ... like tomorrow night ... making plans for the end of season awards ... it never ends !!!
Sunday morning found me doing one of the craziest things I've done so far this year !!! I was up at 4am ... yes you read it right 4am ... to 'Man' a water station on behalf of the High School for the Amashova Cycle race ... people cycle from Pietermaritzburg to Durban ... 96km !!! I mean seriously who does that ... and seriously who gets up at 4am to man a water station ... well I guess I do !!! and then on Sunday afternoon I met up with one of my 'Brides to be' to discuss her wedding photos ...
Heck man ... and there I was looking forward to some quiet time before Christmas !!! Hahahaha ... oh and to end this episode ... just have to mention my next Workshop is booked for 3rd December ... so I really have no time to be dilly dallying !!!
Last term means we have a year end exams ... so lots of studying ahead of us ... Grrrr ... but as Kelsey has done so well so far this year I'm going to try not to stress too much about that .... well not just yet anyway ...
Last week just seems to have flown over ... once it was back to school and the routine kicked in ... I had all these good intentions of doing soooo much ... I mean my to do list just seems to be getting longer not shorter ...
Monday morning I had to take Kleo back to the vets ... when we woke up she was 'bleeding' and not from her wound !!! in the human world we would have said 'ladies problems' !!! Vet put her on a course of anti-biotics, gave her a shot and re-dressed her paw ... oh did I mention we'd taken her to be spayed ... and have a growth removed from her front paw ... anyway she's all better now ... and today she had all her stitches removed ... she did look so cute with her little sock on ... only dog I know who does NOT object to being dressed up ... she's a strange one ... probably why she fits into this crazy family so well LOL !!!
"Check out my sexy sock !!! and I'm supporting the Bokke !!!"
Then ... the new car ... oh did I mention that one ??? The day Paul arrived he was informed "Come Hell or High water you're not getting back on a plane unless I have a 2nd car on my driveway ... you have no idea how difficult my life is without transport nag nag nag nag !!!!" *in moaning wife voice* and OMG he took me seriously ... mind you the fact that he was with us when we broke down at 9pm at night in the middle of Durban ... when had he not been with us it would have been just K & Me !!! and then have to get towed back to Hillcrest and spend 2 days without a car here ... as nasty as it sounds .... maybe Karma was on my side for a change ... so the last week Paul was here we were car hunting ... and way got me another car ... not new 2nd hand but a hell of a lot better(No not better just more reliable than mine) ... a Nissan Murano ... and I would take a photo and post it on here to brag about it ... but I don't have it AGAIN !!! ... well through Paul's power of persuasion had it for the last weekend he was here ... but there were 'things' that Nissan needed to put right on it !!! so I had to take it back on Monday ... and here I am a whole week later and I still don't have it back ..... welcome to Africa ... H U A W !!!
The rest of the week went really well ... and the fact that the sun has shone all week ... with temperatures in the higher 20's and odd 30 ... just made it a really nice week ...
Thursday I met up with a great bunch of ladies ... Adele ... one of the rugby mums told me about the group she met with on a regular basis ... they're all card makers and are all self taught... swapping ideas between them ... well Adele told me about them and them about me and they invited me to pop along and have a chat with them ... what a great and productive morning ... managed to share quite a few ideas just in our first session and now we're going to be meeting once a month for 'Card Making Classes' .... wahooo ... the teacher in me jumping up and down !!!
Then this weekend saw Kelsey playing his last match for the season ... another wahooo ... a couple of months of no rugby ... well no being a rugby mum as such ... although they have started pre - pre-season training ... please don't make me explain that one ... so he is still 'keeping fit' ...
unfortunately they lost their last match 17-5 but they were an U14 squad playing against a touring U15 squad ... and boy those U15 were HUGE !!! so I think they did really really well ... although there's no more rugby I've still got committee meetings ... like tomorrow night ... making plans for the end of season awards ... it never ends !!!
Sunday morning found me doing one of the craziest things I've done so far this year !!! I was up at 4am ... yes you read it right 4am ... to 'Man' a water station on behalf of the High School for the Amashova Cycle race ... people cycle from Pietermaritzburg to Durban ... 96km !!! I mean seriously who does that ... and seriously who gets up at 4am to man a water station ... well I guess I do !!! and then on Sunday afternoon I met up with one of my 'Brides to be' to discuss her wedding photos ...
Heck man ... and there I was looking forward to some quiet time before Christmas !!! Hahahaha ... oh and to end this episode ... just have to mention my next Workshop is booked for 3rd December ... so I really have no time to be dilly dallying !!!
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
My oh My oh My ...
Has it really been that long ??? I mean 4 weeks !!! since I last blogged !!!
Have I really been that busy ... too busy to even find time to write ... well let me tell you how crazy it has been and then you tell me if I could've maybe found half an hour or so to blog ... LOL
For the past 4 weeks ... most of my time has been taken up as a taxi driver ... either for school drop offs, helping out at school, driving (Miss Daisy) oops I mean mum LOL ... rugby practise, more rugby practise oh and did I mention the rugby practise runs ??? and of course in between all that ... packing kits for my workshop day (full details to follow) unpacking stock from the garage for the same said workshop (d.t.f) ... menu planning, shopping etc all for my workshop ...
Oh what the heck let me just tell you about it now ... otherwise I'll get all confused .... what a really great day was had by all ... I had 25 ladies for my first Hillcrest High School Workshop Day and true to Janet style we had a blast ... as usual the most important thing they all needed was a sense of humour ... and boy did we laugh ... and laugh and laugh ... but everyone of the ladies have signed up for the next one ... and of course they all want a Christmas Workshop ... yahooo gals I'm back !!!
Oh I forgot to mention .... in between all of this Paul arrived ... poor man definitely hit the ground running ... a marathon this time ... he arrived Friday 23rd Sept... workshop day was 24th ... Kelsey played rugby Sunday 25th .. then it was all go for the school Sports Dinner on Wed 28th ...he ended up scaffolding fixing the draping ... moving tables and even manning the bar on the night ... all in a days work ...
AND ... just to add to all of this my car decided to pack up on US again ... a late night recovery by Stephen (after a rugby practise) followed by a new diesel pump and the car's back on the road ... but not until it costs Paul a few swipes of his card ... oh and some new tyres !!!! ... then it's packing the car up for the weekend away ...
This past weekend the whole family finally got together in the Berg for our long awaited re-union we had an awesome time ... just a pity the weather didn't play nicely ... we had EVERY type of weather possible ...rain, hail, wind, storms, thunder, lightning ... you name it ... and on the very top of the mountains even SNOW !!! It was blerdy cold !!!! but we all had fun ... great time catching up ... reminiscing etc. etc. ... Plenty of alcohol consumed ... lots of old stories to tell and even some new ones made !!! LOL
And now back home ... enjoying some quiet family time ... sadly Paul only has a few more days till he's back off home to England ... wonder if we'll ever get back to living like a normal family again ???
OoooH and I almost forgot to mention ... Kelsey's school report ... yet again ... 1st in class ...with 3 subject distinctions ...and 90% in MATHS ... oh my genius child ... and yet another PMM...
Have I really been that busy ... too busy to even find time to write ... well let me tell you how crazy it has been and then you tell me if I could've maybe found half an hour or so to blog ... LOL
For the past 4 weeks ... most of my time has been taken up as a taxi driver ... either for school drop offs, helping out at school, driving (Miss Daisy) oops I mean mum LOL ... rugby practise, more rugby practise oh and did I mention the rugby practise runs ??? and of course in between all that ... packing kits for my workshop day (full details to follow) unpacking stock from the garage for the same said workshop (d.t.f) ... menu planning, shopping etc all for my workshop ...
Oh what the heck let me just tell you about it now ... otherwise I'll get all confused .... what a really great day was had by all ... I had 25 ladies for my first Hillcrest High School Workshop Day and true to Janet style we had a blast ... as usual the most important thing they all needed was a sense of humour ... and boy did we laugh ... and laugh and laugh ... but everyone of the ladies have signed up for the next one ... and of course they all want a Christmas Workshop ... yahooo gals I'm back !!!
Oh I forgot to mention .... in between all of this Paul arrived ... poor man definitely hit the ground running ... a marathon this time ... he arrived Friday 23rd Sept... workshop day was 24th ... Kelsey played rugby Sunday 25th .. then it was all go for the school Sports Dinner on Wed 28th ...he ended up scaffolding fixing the draping ... moving tables and even manning the bar on the night ... all in a days work ...
AND ... just to add to all of this my car decided to pack up on US again ... a late night recovery by Stephen (after a rugby practise) followed by a new diesel pump and the car's back on the road ... but not until it costs Paul a few swipes of his card ... oh and some new tyres !!!! ... then it's packing the car up for the weekend away ...
This past weekend the whole family finally got together in the Berg for our long awaited re-union we had an awesome time ... just a pity the weather didn't play nicely ... we had EVERY type of weather possible ...rain, hail, wind, storms, thunder, lightning ... you name it ... and on the very top of the mountains even SNOW !!! It was blerdy cold !!!! but we all had fun ... great time catching up ... reminiscing etc. etc. ... Plenty of alcohol consumed ... lots of old stories to tell and even some new ones made !!! LOL
And now back home ... enjoying some quiet family time ... sadly Paul only has a few more days till he's back off home to England ... wonder if we'll ever get back to living like a normal family again ???
OoooH and I almost forgot to mention ... Kelsey's school report ... yet again ... 1st in class ...with 3 subject distinctions ...and 90% in MATHS ... oh my genius child ... and yet another PMM...
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