Briony is due to arrive in 5 days. Things are crazy busy here as I am trying my best to get the last bookings and business done before the Christmas holiday starts. In between all of this, I have to make a booking for a wax, and this brought up […]

Not my own doing but what has been done cannot be undone. After the loss of Grace, I stumbled around in a little darkness for a while. I had made peace with the fact that her earthly body could no longer endure any more pain and discomfort, but I miss […]

In the 1 May 2021,  Owl Rescue Centre  put an owl box up on the plot. It was situated approx. 6 m above the ground in the Eucalyptus trees. For months we watched and waited for the owls to move in, but unfortunately, the only residents were a pair of […]

2015 Walking my dogs on a Sunday on a friend’s farm had become one of the highlights of my week. This was BMF (Before My Farm). Her farm was literally 5 km from my home and I would load the noisy bunch of dogs in the fun mobile, all happy […]

It’s the year 2010. I spend most of my days at the SPCA, helping out in the office and working with the animals. It’s a labor of love. One morning, a guy arrives on a bicycle. He has a box strapped onto the carrier at the back. We watch him […]

I am not a squeamish 59-year-old. No, I can work as hard as my Malawian army with very little fear of an early collapse. Come rain or shine, I bring my side. This pissy side only extends to the flying fraternity. For some reason, I have a fear of flying bugs […]

Hopping back to the year 1999, Christmas time. We have just moved into our new house. Keagen, our son, is nearly eighteen months old, and Briony just turned nine. Yup, big age difference… we obviously did not fare so great on the family planning side. That’s another story for another […]

It seems like I am unraveling the dead here with my posts, but I am going through my photos trying to sort them into categories, and there are some fond memories coming up. I am enjoying sharing these stories, and many a tear and giggle escapes me while I am […]

My mom passed away in 2007. We were always different people from two different points of view, and those differences became huge hurdles once I started my own family. Looking back, I am sorry I didn’t try harder and do better, but these are the regrets I must live with. […]

I would like to state that this family has the knack for rescuing the most amazing animals and Charlie is at the top of this list. Charlie, the pig, arrived at the SPCA in 2011 rescued by the Inspectors from a life where he and a friend lived in a […]