November news

Has anyone heard of Ubuntu House? It's a home for abandoned and sick babies. Wow - what an experience. If you want to know more, please email me and I'll send you the details.

8th November - We went to the Jesse Clegg concert at the CTICC. Ard Mathews from Just Jinger and Dan Patlansky joined him on stage too. It was awesome. Well worth the evening out!

For those who noticed & asked about my low on the 16th September. Thank you for all your support and love. I feel like I'm on a roller coaster ride, some days I'm up and others down but I guess with time I'm hoping I'll have more ups than downs and in time I'll be left with a scar but it would have healed I'm sure. As the saying goes... What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger and this too will pass:-)

The last month, my mission was to get a Life and I think I'm slowly getting there as I've actually got up to quite a bit this past month. Let's see how much I can fit in next month:-)

For those that I have not seen in a long while, please feel free to pop in anytime for coffee and a chat...

October news

Well I think I blinked and that was the end of October month and here we are nearly half way through November...

So to recap...

5th October - Happy 30th Birthday to my brother in law, Charel. Hope your year is full of wonderful and happy times.

12th October - Congrats to Carl & Clarissa on their beautiful baby girl, Peyton Isabella. You are both very blessed and I am sure she is going to bring you lots of joy.

18th October - ok so I arranged a ladies day out playing some golf on a short game / 9 hole course at Wagner's. I hadn't played for probably more than a year so needless to say it did not go well, I came home and advertised my golf clubs and shoes on Gumtree and they are now sold. Gumtree is your friend. I feel so much better now:-)

This month I joined a social outdoor netball club - we train on a Monday and a Thursday, so if you're keen to join us, let me know as we're still looking for more players in order to fill 2 Teams.

I've also started with some fencing lessons - wow, now this I've been wanting to do for ages and by fluke found a Coach that runs his training sessions from the Italian Club. I'm really enjoying this - much better than golf! See - when 1 door closes, you need to let go and walk through the open door :-)

I've also done a bit of home decor, sold our black leather lounge suite upstairs and moved the cream coloured one upstairs - the changes look pretty good if I must say so myself.

Janine & I have been to 2 different Photography club meetings and still not found the right club for us, so I'm thinking of starting up our own social club. Anyone interested or know of a group we can join?

For our ladies Kit Kat Club outing we went for a High Tea at Myoga at the Vineyard in Claremont on the 31st October. It was superb, well worth it if you're looking for a good high tea! I even manged to get a frozen Margarita:-)

On the evening of the 31st October, we went for monthly dinner at a 'Touch of Madness' in Observatory - have a look at our monthly dinner club blog for the review.

September News - some more...

Congratulations to our Godson, Benjamin Adam Procter, on his baptism on Sunday, 20th September at the Durbanville Catholic church. He is such a good baby and sat through the entire church service as well as his baptism without a peep. We are very proud Godparents!

September News

This month has been a bumper month already with lots of news...

September 1st - our friends Marc and Siobahn welcomed a beautiful baby girl into their family. Congratulations and may she bring you much happiness always.

September 4th - we had an 80's Themed Birthday party for Mike. Everyone made an effort to dress to the Theme. We had our dancing shoes on and one or two were brave enough to attempt some 'break dancing' and 'head banging' moves - luckily there were no injuries:-)


September 5th - we went to the Grand Arena to the Flat Stanley, Just Jinjer & aKing concert. The concert was awesome and real value for money. R120 for 3 bands was a brilliant bargain!

September 8th - Mike's Birthday, we went to a restaurant called the Opal Lounge on Kloof Street, Gardens. A fabulous experience and well worth it for a special occasion. Food, drinks, service and ambience was brilliant.

September 9th - Our nephew, Jack Ferreira Kerschbaumer, was born at 6:45pm (UK time). Congratulations to Elsa & Charel on their gorgeous baby boy. We can't wait to meet him!



And then this weekend past, we went to Hermanus for the Saturday. Great to see that SA beat NZ in the rugby so we took the Tri Nations Cup. Sorry Kurt:-)

September 13th - Happy 2nd Birthday to our Twin Angels, Morgan and Chad. I'm sure they had a great party and were smiling down on us!

September 16th - Little did I know that this day would be a life changing day for me. The less said the better:-(

That's it for now, but still lots more to come for September... watch this space...

August News

Last weekend, 07/08 - 10/08 we went with a couple of friends to stay on a Farm in Tulbagh for the long weekend. We were 12 people and 3 kids - and there was ample space for all of us!

We went wine tasting on the Saturday morning at 3 wine farms: Twee Jong Gezellen, Montpellier & Paddagang so we were able to stock up on some wine and lots of Paddagang Port.

In the evening - we had a delicious butter chicken dish - Thanks to Fiona! On the Sunday evening - we had a yummy potjie - Thanks Shawn!

We played some 30 Seconds in the evening - with Lucy, Janine & Linda leaving us with some trade marks. The less said the better:-)

There were lots of Photo opportunities - I've posted some pics here.

Janine has some awesome pics on Facebook and Chris has some fabulous pics on Flickr...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/b-gin-r

Thanks Linda for organising the weekend away. Well done!

July News...

Well, just for a change - this time we actually did go overseas... we've just returned from a 2 week holiday in Orlando, visiting Disney World and all the main parks that go with it. The best park of all is definitely Universal Studio's (& Islands of Adventure - also part of Universal).

Not to mention that Mike & Jordan did more than their fair share of shopping. Orlando has some excellent shopping Outlets (aka Factory shops but they equate to our Malls e.g. Willowbridge style) where you can find all the latest labels at very good prices.

You'll also find lots and lots of restaurants and a few theatre and dinner spots - we tried out Medieval Times, which was a great experience. The food in US is definitely bigger than anything we have here. If you order any meal at a food court while shopping, you're sure to get a decent size plate of food - probably equates to 2 of our meals here. The take away foods start from about $4 - $8 for 1 meal. I didn't really find any food that was better than here though - although I did enjoy the Angus Beef / Rib eye that we had at one of the restaurants.

We visited the Kennedy Space Centre and the next shuttle launch was due on Saturday but then postponed due to lightning strikes they had the night before. We were not impressed as this was a once in a life time experience - and it was the 3rd time it was re-scheduled. It finally did launch on their 6th attempt on Wednesday. I caught the clip on You Tube:-)

I was quite surprised to find that Orlando did not have a proper public transport service, which means you rely on the hotel shuttles to get you to the theme parks (which is a free service so that's a bargain)... and then anywhere else you want to go to, you need to catch a taxi or rent a car. Walking is not really an option as the places to visit are quite far apart so the only walking we did was to a few gift shops & restaurants around the hotel we stayed at - the rest we did by taxi.

By the way - if you're up for a holiday to Orlando, you can quite easily spend 2-3 weeks there without running out of things to do. We were there for just under 2 weeks and got to see all the main Disney & Universal parks except for 2 water parks but there was still so much else to see and do that we could have stayed for another 1-2 weeks or longer. We also wanted to get to Miami and Key West but didn't get there as it would have been another day wasted on travel time - it's about a 3-4 hour drive to Miami. Maybe next time:-)

Ok, enough from me - I'll include a few pics and if you want to know more then come have a cup of coffee with me:-)

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my little sister, Elsa. She celebrated her birthday on Friday, 26th June.
She is also pregnant - so I'll soon have a nephew and be a REAL Aunty. I'm so excited and can't wait:-)

Happy 70th Birthday to my Dad for Tuesday, 30th June. Today we took him for a surprise birthday lunch at Bloemendal restaurant. He saw there were friends and family at the lunch table and then realised it was HIS 70th Birthday lunch - the expression on his face was priceless!