Picket fence of many colours
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It’s tricky.
Imagine I’m your mother. 🙈 Bloody hell. It must be difficult but I’m loved. I currently have two children in Germany, not in the same town. One in the UK and God best save them and the Queen. I try so bloody hard to be respectful of privacy. I fail often but I honestly try.… Continue reading
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Bacon. The story of a pig.
Dear friends and other interesting creatures, It started when the x person and I bought a house just after my 18th birthday. I realised I could have a party! Hosting a party carried on into my second marriage, where it became more church and family focussed. Gatherings, afternoon teas and surprise parties. I remember my… Continue reading
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@SirNoid ♡ @NocturnalWenchy
Who is older? @SirNoid is older as girls have started calling him “Oom“. I’m #14forever. You do the math. ♡ How long have you been together? Since 12th of January 2008. Who is the most sensitive? I am hyper sensitive and hurt emotionally and physically very easily. I laugh as loudly as I cry. @SirNoid… Continue reading
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Happy Anniversary to my Parents.
I am thinking of two beautiful humans, who are incredibly important to me. Two people who one day took me into their home and gigantic hearts. Regardless of the fact that their DNA does not run through my veins, or that I do not have any of their eyes, or shared childhood memories, I became… Continue reading
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… He believes in me, I don’t know what he sees in me …
Dear friends and other interesting creatures, From the beginning he was all in. While I analysed the unexpected love, devotion and absolute certainty he possessed about our future (not to mention the chunks of sexy that was coming my way), he was mixing our CD’S and DVD’s which at the time closed my throat with… Continue reading
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Check your mate
Dear friends and other interesting creatures, Random thoughts: * My anxiety is playing up at the moment and I am not loving it. My default emotion is anxiety so it does not require an event to plague me. It is not fanTy. Forgive me if I am not as chatty as usual. Although … I’ve… Continue reading
(unnamed), Baked cheese cake, Blue Bloods, Cappuccino, Chicago Med, Crème Brulee, fillet steak, Game of thrones, Grahamstown Arts Festival, Greys Anatomy, Johannesburg, John Green, Jozi, Koos Kombuis, Lesotho, McGregor, Mitch Albom, pork belly, Potchefstroom, Salted caramel milkshake, Sani Pass, Stephen Chbosky, Strawberry Daiquiri, the blacklist, Tsitsikamma National Park, Uvongo, Victoria Falls -
For the good times
Dear friends and other interesting creatures, This reminded me of beautiful you, Victoria . My youngest biological child. The way you use to look at me with wonder when you were little. I told you if they could one man on the moon, why couldn’t they put all of them there? 🙂 You seemed to… Continue reading
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“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well…”
Dear friends and other interesting creatures, I have readers, loyal and long suffering readers that have been around 20 years next year (party?), and when I don’t blog, they text, email or whatsapp me messages to ask “Everything ok?” “You ok?”You gotta love it, right? Thank you for knowing me well enough not to phone… Continue reading
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The first time ever I saw your face.
My darling chicken little, I miss you tremendously this morning. A sore that runs from my heart to my hands looking for yours and ending in a tear. ♡ #SmileBeautiful.. That is what you taught me. You need to © that shit. ♡ Be kind, you never know which chapter of their book another person… Continue reading
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Shut your eyes and see.
Dear friends and other interesting creatures, Every year, I do my best to approach December as a passage of time, just another month. Some years I do better than others. The anniversary of my father’s death is on the 14th, and my Oupa Mike on the 12th… Just before Christmas is Oupa Mike’s birthday. I… Continue reading
About Me
Mom to many, wife to SirNoid. Lover of water, walks in the shade and all things purple.