Today we had a family get-together. Julie and her family travelled up from Cape Town and are staying for a few days. On Thursday she phoned me to ask whether it was possible to have lunch with us on Sunday. The total for lunch today was 14 ( Read more... )

I am looking up Paella recipes and I came across this one:

From a South African site : "To tenderise the calamari - moer it with any heavy object you have to hand; this is a sure-fire way of ensuring it stays soft and succulent."

The poor calamari wouldn't dare be anything else.

Now where did I put my heavy bobbejaan spanner?

Jem did a project on HPV a while ago and I have become very interested in the vaccines which have become available ( Read more... )

At 8.45 this morning a representative of my bank phoned me and asked me whether I had made certain transactions over the weekend (withdrawing cash). The bank had been alerted (this just proves that the country does indeed need lerts) by patterns of usage and had already cancelled my card very early on Monday morning ( Read more... )

I couldn't find Stat for quite some time today.  After a while I had everyone looking for him.

Still no luck.  Eventually he appeared from under a table with a long tablecloth on it.  He looked much the worse for wear and was limping.  I think that he may have had a fight.

I mentioned it to Allan at work when I phoned him later in the day and he ( Read more... )

I took Jem to Milpark on Thursday for a scan in prep for his appointment with Dr Snykers on Friday.

Thank goodness.  There is an all-clear.  The scan is fine and his brain is back to normal.  He has also stopped taking the Epinutin.

We are all thrilled.

On Friday, my next door neighbour and I went to the Johannesburg Produce Market.  It's the biggest market in the Southern Hemisphere and was quite interesting ( Read more... )

Jem had another scan week before on Thursday.  Prof Snyckers called James and Jem in for an appointment on this last Thursday evening.  With him being so busy, he had had no time to study the scan ( Read more... )

Elsa and I went to a "Your Family" exhibition yesterday. It's a "crafty" magazine produced in South Africa.  It was at Emperors Palace near the airport ( Read more... )

I went to see Jem in the hospital yesterday.  He is looking and feeling well but is not quite ready to brave the world ( Read more... )