What’s up with young, healthy people just dropping dead?

In as many weeks, I have heard of three young, healthy women, all with young children, just dropping dead. The first, a few weeks ago, a friend mentioned that her ex-husband's new wife (early 30's, slim and otherwise healthy), was found dead in her home, flanked by her two young sons, after phoning her sister to …

Photo Friday … gone sailing

I have always loved taking photos of boats ... here are a few of my favourite ones taken a few years ago. Capri - May 2007 Sardinia May 2007 Maruitius - January 2005

The end of an era…

This weekend, we did a car-seat shuffle. Caris has been travelling along happily in her rear-facing baby seat up until now, but was starting to look a little bit squashed of late. Alex has been in a front-facing seat since he was a year old, and seeing as Caris is almost 14 months now, I …

Photo Friday … Siblings

Graduation Day

The Great Hall at Wits is an eye-catching piece of architecture; the centre-piece in a world-class educational institute, and a reminder of an era when Johannesburg was once a young city. Within its walls students celebrate their coming of age and the achievement of their degrees. Hopes and dreams of careers as Doctors, Lawyers, Scientists, Engineers and the …