Planetarium

On Friday morning I took the kids for a brisk walk up the Tygerberg Hill at the Nature Reserve.  I was still quite sick, so it was a strain on my chest.  It is such an amazing view from up there and worth the effort! On Saturday morning it was so cold and rainy, but [...]

Tygerberg Nature Reserve Hike

My sister, Jacqui, inspired me to take the kids hiking.  They did a hike with the kids and friends last weekend in Israel and the girls seemed to do great (in spite of their short legs).  So this morning we set off and I was so impressed with my clan, who hiked the 1.3km Tortoise trail [...]

Sports Day

I wish I had some photos already to post now, but I will have to hassle Stefan to send me some.  That is the main frustration about having this hugely talented and amazing photographer as a husband!!  The photos are shot in RAW, then need to downloaded, converted, edited and resized before being put on [...]

Namibia

Eventually I can say that tomorrow we leave for our Namibian Roadtrip Holiday!  Our bags are all packed and we’ll be leaving at 2am tomorrow morning.  We’ve done quite a bit of shopping for the trip, including new tents and lots of warm clothes, jackets, gloves, longjohns etc.  I thought we were doing something quite [...]

Roadtrip

I’m so excited about the prospect of us doing a roadtrip early June.  The plan is to join Lynette, Gush and family as well as some of their friends for a 2 week trip into Namibia.  This is the perfect was to end of school year.  It also gives me motivation to get finished by [...]

Weekend at the River

We were very kindly invited by Bernadine and her family to join them and two other families at their holiday home near Malgas on the Breede River.  We left on Saturday morning and what should have been a 2.5 hour drive, ended up a little longer after one wrong turn, one pont crossing and two flat [...]

Busy January – Week 18

The year has gotten off to a good start and we did a good solid week of school last week as well as a picnic outing with the homeschool group.  Both Aaron and Chris managed a lesson of Maths everyday and I managed to tick all my boxes…including Science! We had a busy weekend – [...]

Nitida

Yesterday was such lovely weather and we desperately wanted to enjoy the last bit of the sun and warmth of the day somewhere where we could chill with a glass of wine and the kids could enjoy themselves too.  We drove through to Nitida’s restuarant Cassia (I think) and it was perfect for what we [...]

Quick Update

Usually I don’t post for a while when we’re away or just too busy, but actually it’s been the opposite lately.  I was great at keeping up to date when we were away, but I’ve slowed down a bit now that things are running more smoothly and to a routine. We are now cruising along [...]

London August 2009

We have arrived safe and sound back in London.  It was a long flight via Dubai, but we managed.  I must say it feels completely natural being here, maybe like going to PE for a holiday.  The kids and I arrived on Tuesday afternoon at the flat and it is now Friday morning and I [...]