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I, by chance, came across this organisation on Facebook. Sparrow Village is a semi self sustaining, miniature town in Gauteng, South Africa.  They support terminally ill children & adults, as well as abused or deserted children or children who have lost one or both of their parents to HIV/Aids. Since they’re a non profit organisation, they need [...]

Hi All While taking my stroll around Montrose, I came across a statue of a great big St. Bernard called Bamse.  According to his write up, when the war broke he went to sea with his master and was registered as a crew member of  Norwegian navy minesweeper called the Thorodd.  By all accounts this [...]

“You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock”… This is the common phrase known today, derived from the original “Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo!”, which (when translated) means “Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock”. It was a song composed for a women’s march that took place 54 years ago, on this day.  20 [...]

On Wednesday two weeks ago I started building a bed for Kayden.   He and Kyra are now sharing a room and his little cot is just too small for him. So the build commenced. This was going to be a bunk bed type design. When I built Kyra’s bed I had in the back [...]

We decided to have another family outing 2 weeks ago. This time our destination was Mitchell Park in Durban. We’d been there before, but only had a picnic and looked at the beautiful gardens and let the children ride on their bikes for a bit. This time we decided to pay the “whopping” R4 (rand) entrance [...]