Jan
22
This week was orientation/initiation week for the grade 8’s at Hudson Park High School. During this week they had to carry their school stuff in a garbage bag, the boys had to tuck the legs of their pants into their socks and wear their hair in a defined middle path. The girls had to start [...]
Oct
10
Yes, I am back! I always knew that I would write this particular blog and I have looked forward to it, but I had decided to wait for at least a month after being back in South Africa, so that I could gauge people’s reactions and try to find out where the truth stops and [...]
Jul
04
It was the 4th July 2009 when the wheels of that plane lifted from the ground in South Africa and a long flight to Heathrow began. Tonight it is exactly one year ago. When I wake up in the morning, I will have lived in England for 1 year. Looking back on the past year, I struggle to conceptualise how [...]
Jun
27
Wooooo! Summer finally came to England, in all its HUMID, awesome wonder. Good golly, there are sunburnt people all over the place. (Note to me: It’s time to tan!) Today was Jenna’s 1st Holy Communion in the Catholic Church. It was a beautiful hot sunny day, a beautiful service and Jenna looked so pretty. She [...]
Jun
21
Today is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and if you go back and read my blog from the start of spring you will see that I wrote something like “Was that it? Was that really the best winter could dish out at us?”, but now I am asking – Where [...]
Jun
13
It’s the middle of June; it’s almost the middle of the year. Do you remember just the other day when you were opening Christmas presents and celebrating New Year? Well we are now half-way to the next one already. If you think you just packed away the Christmas decorations, let me tell you, it won’t [...]
Jun
06
This week marks 11 months that we have lived in the UK. 1 more month and we would have been here for an entire year. When you think about the 5 years needed to get your British citizenship, it seems like it is forever, but then you wake up and all of a sudden one [...]
May
30
Well, the highlight of this week must undoubtedly be Mitchell’s week in France. It was a year-7 trip to Paris. The boys travelled to Paris in 4 coaches on the EuroStar channel tunnel. They stayed in a hotel on the Seine River in Paris. I was so surprised at some of Mitchell’s favourite recollections of [...]
May
23
Wow! What a fantastic weather-weekend it was. Summer has finally arrived. It’s like the weather over here knows exactly when it is meant to change. Not too soon and not too late. It’s almost as if it can read the calendar and it gives us just what we are meant to have. We bought a [...]
May
16
This week Roxi joined us! She is a nine week old beagle, and in the words of the vet: “You got a BEAGLE?!?! Don’t worry, she will settle down, when she is about 6!” She is ultra-cute though and a real little live-wire. She is doing the typical puppy things, like chewing on everything from shoes [...]