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Definitely moving ...

2011-03-28T14:35:00.003+02:00

Hello, if you are here you have most likely followed my link from Twitter. Please be advised that I am currently moving this blog to http://taluta.wordpress.com/I have not done this completely yet so you may be a bit disappointed if you wander of there and find no tea and cake waiting for you. Have no fear, the kettle is boiling and the cake is in the oven, so please bookmark it and stop by

Don't press the panic button ....

2010-05-13T12:23:00.003+02:00

I am still around! Life has just been getting in the way of what I really want! *stomp/pout/groan*I have written a number of blogs offline and shall undertake to post them. I'll have to backdate some or I risk looking particularly out of sync..... which is probably true; but I do like to keep a facade of having well honed organisational skills ..... *cough* ;D

Ptooey Kshooey: Wierd name I know.....

2010-01-15T01:55:00.003+02:00

It came to me in a dream... I'm not really into that sort of thing, but I have been having some strange and vivid dreams lately. Of course my first thought was: "YES! The world HAS to know about my dreams!!" Well, no, it really wasn't my first thought at all. Not to worry, I am not a nutter with some freaky ideas about how dreams are any more than a subconscious manifestation of conscious

I love poetry and childhood dreams...

2009-10-17T15:43:00.009+02:00

Yes, I do. I always have and I write poetry too I'll have you know, poorly, but nevertheless my own :D As a very small child I would read Mother Goose rhymes, almost daily. Winnie the Pooh lived in my bookshelf and the Hundred Acre Wood (aka Ashdown forest) in my vivid imagination..... I had the original version of Winnie the Pooh mind you, the one illustrated by E.H. Shepard, not the Disney

Cuteness Overload - Cleopatra Stratan

2009-07-21T13:18:00.007+02:00

This little girl is eat me up gorgeous.Now, I clearly recall, when I was about to become a mother, I only wanted a son. It seemed fitting as I have always been a bit of a tomboy and I couldn't picture myself with a daughter, as luck would have it, I got my wish and I love my son to pieces. BUT..... and ....However, seeing Cleopatra Stratan singing in this YouTube video has reminded me that tomboy

Car Park Security - 15June2009

2009-06-15T13:05:00.004+02:00

My first sketch of many... a route! Not certain if I should in fact put these under a different blog, but... it all seems a bit like overkill if I do, after all, it is all me... !I hope you like this, a snippet of my life, done this morning.

Out with the "emo" in with the new

2009-06-08T14:01:00.004+02:00

I have made a huge descision.Move on, move up, move out!Life gets in the way of happiness sometimes and for me happiness is creativity. It amounts to mental self preservation really. Without one I can't seem to find the other.It really is not that difficult, by making incremental changes in my environment I am more open to productivity. Of course I always knew this, we all do, but getting to

Gecko eats moth and other exciting stories from Africa

2009-05-21T14:38:00.006+02:00

My son was outside a short while ago and heard something which he thought was glass vibrating, he spotted this: A gecko had caught a moth and the moth was flapping madly in an attempt to escape - poor thing.BUT, as any good African knows, don't intervene when wildlife is hunting or feeding ;D so we didn't.I am ashamed to say that the moth succumbed is now inside the belly of the gecko! The gecko

Sorry no Easter egg mommy and other presets for adulthood....

2009-05-18T14:17:00.009+02:00

We always seem to see things more clearly in the stillness of the night, don't we? I am sure you have had moments where you have felt this way, I know I have, many many times. I wonder though, is it clarity or is it the fact that without external sensory input we are forced to look inwards, a bit like meditation or therapy?

Do everything you do with love...Or don't do it at all!

2009-05-10T22:42:00.007+02:00

I'm not a child, I know these things.... I do... really..., but do I....really?! It's something I would do well to remember. I struggle a lot with it because I'm angry, I often say to people in jest that I have been in a bad mood for 15 years, but the truth is, I may well have been. The problem is that although I am not nearly as

Perception isn't everything ....

2009-04-19T11:35:00.002+02:00

We are all victims of our perceptions. Even the most open minded of us might be surprised to find how easily we have been seduced by what we read or hear. We are what we make of ourselves, we become who we believe we are.Of course those open minded souls would vehemently deny that they are influenced in any way by outside forces, don't they after all consider all logical options before deciding

This is for my sister.....

2009-04-15T07:44:00.007+02:00

I was a very small child and you almost a pre-teen, but somehow this sense of shared belonging and care for each other is evoked in the memories which these songs bring to the fore, indeed they may hold different memories for you, but mine are of you. ......, because no matter how different we are

Neglect and procrastination....

2009-03-22T16:05:00.002+02:00

I am terrible! Not in the sense that I am a horrible person, but more to the point, I commit tentatively to something and get easily sidetracked.Perhaps I have an attention deficit disorder, I say I am easily bored. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter what you call it, I need to be more pro-active about managing my time constructively.I had no idea it has been nearly a full two months

The virtual promise...

2009-01-07T10:01:00.004+02:00

On my Moleskine....I promise to set up my virtual self within X amount of time.I promise that virtually everything I post will be of value.I promise that I know virtually everything there is to know about what I write/share or teach..I virtually promise this.....!!!Yes, the move to be online is proving more challenging than I initially anticipated, probably because I want everything to be perfect

Ringing in the New Year

2008-12-31T21:47:00.003+02:00

Well, the countdown continues ... 2 hours and 12 minutes before we are launched into 2009 way down here on the Southern tip of Africa!I would like to wish everyone a happy New Year. May it be wonderful in every possible way!Champagne... I need champagne!

I want an Apple Mac...

2008-12-29T10:42:00.005+02:00

I am so sick and tired of MS based software/computers crashing as soon as you look at them, simply not coping with what I need from them and just generally being a pain in the arse!I have been struggling for weeks to load my web site due to a problem with the ftp client not communicating with the host - so @#!@@#$&- ing irritating!! FINALLY resolved, but using an open source client ....

A long line of single women.....

2008-12-13T10:08:00.016+02:00