My African Heritage

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The news in South Africa is currently dominated with a few headlines about the Oscar Trial, that weird EFF political party, some crazy ANC lady wanting the South African anthem broadcast twice a day and the new LandAct Law signed by Zuma a few days ago. I am not interested in the first three headlines, but the fourth sends shivers down my spine!

For hundreds of years my family have farmed in the Eastern Cape and my hubbies family have farmed on their land for over 102 years in the Free State and in all those years have weathered the storm of droughts, hardships and found a way to cultivate the African climate. These farms have been passed down from generation to generation, thus they are a product of the blood, sweat and tears of over 7 generations of Pringles and Browns in the Eastern Cape. I am very proud…

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Sometimes I feel cross, but I don’t know why Dandlebear

karenwoodall's avatarKaren Woodall - Psychotherapist, Writer, Supervisor, Trainer

Kitty was a girl who had been on a long journey.  For a time she had not seen her daddy and that had made her very sad.  When it came to the time when she would see her daddy again she felt worried, what if her daddy did not like her anymore, what if her daddy was cross with her?

When she saw her daddy again all her worries fell away because everything was alright and just the same as her memories said it would be.  In fact it was so good that sometimes she wondered what all the fuss had been about.  She and daddy would spend every weekend together and sometimes would have a holiday together too.  Kitty enjoyed those times best of all, because she could pretend that this was forever and that she would never have to leave her daddy again.

Leaving daddy was something that…

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Daily update for my Boys 1 July 2014

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Good afternoon Little Men !

I hope my muppets are well and safe today.

It’s been such a nice winters day here again 🙂 , Ouma and I went out on the town today , been a fun day …lots giggles , not sure we should have gone out as I am not sure who is more sick her or I , but I guess we needed some fun also ……

Oupa has been out also sorting his motorcycle restoration project , the bike looks really good , I am pretty sure you two would love to ride it one day. He was naughty also and have gone to test drive the new Harley D he wants to get.

I have my dentist appointment tomorrow morning and then I guess it’s back to work stuff for the rest of the week, looks like I will be in Cape Town next week which should be nice , hope to catch up with some friends, time permitting.

I have had no confirmation yet again again from the Court on the documents filed last weekend with them so I will email them tomorrow to follow up , the further directions as mentioned in the order from 18 June is also still outstanding , no surprise there then on the Court once again not doing their job.

Spoke to Mr J today also , I think I will see them and the twin on Sunday for a bite at the a Ocean basket , restaurant of choice for the twins as they are now officially sushi mad , which is great to see little ones enjoying great healthy food like that , pretty sure I am going to have to eat all the wasabi on their behalf 🙂

The phone drama on my side seems sorted now also , I have opted to go for two blackberry’s , rather the devil you know as the saying goes ….

I should know end of next week also what my travel plans are for the rest of July and August so I will keep you posted.

Well champs I hope you both will have a fantastic day tomorrow full of fun , plenty of learning and loads of giggles ….

Can’t wait to see you both a little later under our big old green tree in dreamland ….looking forward to some nice bear dream cuddles and smiles.

Night , night , Little Men ….happy dreams of mega big adventures of your day 🙂

Love you both around the world and back and miss you a trillion times more than that distance !

Love you , Champs ….always …

Dad xx

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Daily update for my Boys 30 June 2014

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Hello Little Men !

How are my Champs doing on this lovely Monday evening ? I hope well and safe 🙂

Well it turned out to be a bit of a not so productive day , I had to go out to the Mall for a couple of things in the morning as I had no credit on the wifi thing at home so had to go charge it , had to take my dry cleaning in also so I can get met stuff ready to pack again. Then I ended up helping Ouma set up her new blackberry touch screen phone , now the issue here is it looks like a cure and in theory should be pretty easy to set up right ? Think again ! Lol , maybe it is because it has no keyboard , the whole thing is touch screen which I know you two are masters off , me not so much as I have told you before , I seem to be able to manage my IPad ok because the keyboard is bigger but trying to set up email accounts , Bbm , what’s up , twitter etc on a tiny screen keyboard , my worst nightmare ! It took me most of this afternoon and I am still not done but have decided to try again tomorrow , the funny thing is after spending hours to update , configure and set up , Ouma gives it one look and asks , where do I press the numbers if I want to make a call ? Honest answer , I have no clue , lol as I have not been able to figure that part out yet … I think we will have to send Ouma on a six month training course on how to use this beast of a phone , lol

So this all meant that I have to get up really early tomorrow to get my month end stuff done and touch base with the office in PaK , the 3 hour time difference is not helping either at the moment ….but what to do as they say !

My chest is again not great today but it still seems better than last week so I guess that is a good sign.

It’s gone pretty cold here also tonight but yet today I was really hot in the car when I went out , but hey ,it was still bright , bright blue skies and plenty of Sunshine so all good !

I hope you both have had a good start to your week , I was sent some lovely photo’s of you both also today , I see you have had your summer hair cuts , looks pretty cool , the jumpers are a little busy for my liking but maybe you two like them 🙂

Hope to see you both as always a little later under our big old green tree in dreamland , can’t wait for my double O dream cuddles !

Night , night , Champs …sweet dreams …..

Love you both thiiiiiiisssssss much and miss you sooooo much more !

Love you Little Men ….always …..

Dad xx