In honor of the Zimbabwe elections ...

All hail Gary Larson, creator of the Far Side!

Non-gardener's Paradise

I don't really 'do' gardening ... so to have this beautiful bougainvillea hedge cascading across the garage roofs down below and knowing I can enjoy it without having to worry about it ... is my idea of paradise!

Lame Post Number Nine

This is my new hairdrier, bought today even though the end of the month is still a few days away and I now have about three cents left in my purse. The old one died a rattly, smoky death this morning - what can I say? This snazzy piece of machinery comes with a handy booklet of instructions on how to blow hot air at my hair - maybe there are actually people who need this? Maybe it's in case they bought it by mistake, thinking it was a ... a chainsaw or a blender or something?

Tattoo

My daughter went to a sleepover last night and came home with a tattoo ...... it's just beautiful and I love it!

I had to photograph it now 'cos these henna tattoos fade quickly ... ;-)

Going up in the world

Our new home again, but from the outside this time ...

For the Bible Tells Me So ...

One of the things I inherited from my parents when they downsized was this HUGE old family Bible. It's Cassell's Illustrated Family Bible, published by Cassell, Petter and Galpin of London and New York, sometime in the mid-1800s. The part that always fascinated me is the family record pages, where the births, deaths and marriages of many of my great-great-great-greats are recorded. Makes for fascinating reading! The page below shows Samson wrestling a lion!

School Holidays ...

... and boredom has struck ....

Just Add Water!

Again, my inspiration was Kelly - this time her Instant Civil War post!

Easter brownies

... with extra almonds and choc chips ....

The World and A Giraffe

... are in my living room.

One of the many reasons ...

... that I love our new home. It's quite scary, in fact, to feel so happy about something as simple as what a room looks like in the early evening!

Stormy weather rolling in

It's a bit alarming how many of these 365 blog posts are to do with the weather! What can it mean?!?

Moonrise

I'm entranced by the continually changing views from my front window, especially now the season is changing from summer to autumn.

Of Shoes and ...

Inspired by Kel, these are two of my best buys ever!

A Stephen Marks pure silk jacket in olive green for R5.00 at a secondhand store

A pair of unidentified but elegantly beautiful and comfortable shoes from another secondhand store, this time for R10.00

Biker Boy

He's really independent now ....

Rain!!

After several days of sweltering late summer heat, last night the temperatures dropped and today, the rains came! :-)

Why?

Why would I rather still have chocolate when there is all this glorious late summer fruit available in the stores?

Why oh why ....

... is Blogger being so uncooperative? Last night, and again this morning? It just won't upload any images for me!! GRRRRR..........

Today

The sun rose somewhere around 6.40am ...

...and set again about fourteen hours later. Both events were beautiful.

Getting all anal ...

All those damn computer cords lying all over the place were really getting to me yesterday, so I wrestled 'em into submission ...

The View From The Top

We can see the sea from our new house. Really. It's right there .... under the misty bit ... a beautiful dark blue today. I think ...

A different view of the same beach ... wish this was the one we could see ....