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“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 [...]

Hi Folks It has been a while since I have posted to our blog so I thought I would ease myself into it with a trusted favourite.  1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs. It is hard to believe that this piece of kit is floating around us. Most of us [...]

I have been going to the Durban Botanical Gardensfor many years now. But I’ve only recently started appreciating what it has to offer in the form of a relaxing afternoon with your family. I took the time to read up on the history of the gardens and summarised as follows: The Durban Botanic Gardens is [...]