Sam’s View

‘Tis the Season to be jolly and I am pretty jolly…which is why I have been in two minds about even posting this rant. I gave into it though because I am only now moving out of the “fuming with anger” phase. Read more »

I have a confession to make: I drafted this post a week ago and haven’t published it until this evening because I really don’t know what sort of response I am going to get from you all! It is a little off-the-wall, but I am sure you will all be kind with your comments…

I thought that I would write a little about our avian friends this time. Not because I am particularly interested in birds…I mean, I love all animals, but short of parrots that talk (like my Aunt’s one) they don’t really do it for me. I am more a dog and cat kinda girl…but for some reason bird “things” have just punctuated my relatively bird-free existence during the past couple of weeks…

Bird topic No. 1 – Duck Feet: I ate them. On Friday. Not fun. Here is how it happened… Read more »

One day, a long, long ago, there was a man who cooked, cleaned and helped look after the kids.

But that was a long time ago…

and it was just ONE day.

The End

“A 200-foot-long knitted and stuffed toy rabbit presently lies on the side of the 5,000 foot high Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy’s Piedmont region”. This definitely caught my attention! Read more »

As promised, to follow is an account of life in North Korea. Unfortunately I have not been one of the 1500 Western tourists (according to BBC News Online) to make it through the country’s borders each year, so I have relied on the information and photography posted by those that have made the very expensive and difficult-to-organise trip. Read more »

Just for the record, I started part 2 over the weekend and have been trying to finish it ever since. Michael had the audacity to post this comment this morning: Read more »

Having read and heard a fair bit about it, my curiosity got the better of me. I decided that last Sunday would be the day where Michael and I would drive for 45 minutes (each way) to buy some doughnuts. Yes, it was time for me to try my first ever Krispy Kreme. Read more »

Michael and I decided to do some exploring today. Read more »

I can simply not handle these revolting things. Prior to living in Queensland, I had never come cross them…IN MY LIFE. In Cape Town, it is bad enough when people insist on drinking beer/canned drinks out of the bottle/can, let alone popping said container into a revolting tube of foam rubber! Read more »

Sitting on a tram everyday for anything between and hour and a quarter to and hour and three-quarters can prove quite interesting. Read more »