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Happy Christmas to all my readers
I hope you are all having a wonderful day. Thank you so much for all your support over the years. For your comments, your cards and gifts, for reading me and encouraging me in my blogging. You will...
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Happy New Year!
Happy new year to all my readers and all the best for 2018. I hope you have love and light, health and happiness and that you achieve all your goals, both professional and private. Much love from me...
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Thank you everyone!
These were ‘our’ stats from 1 January 2018. Quite a long journey from 2012 when thisbugslife had maybe 3 views a day. I want to thank everyone who made this possible. You inspire me to keep finding new...
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New Year, New Hair
So…this happened 20cm off the bottom of my hair and lighter highlights. It will be much shorter than this when it is back to natural curls. I always have my hair straightened when I cut it so the...
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Does this happen to anyone else?
No matter how tired I am, if I get up when I wake up I am fine. If I close my eyes ‘for a few minutes’ I fall into a really deep sleep and am so tired when I wake up.
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Why oh why?
I am sure there is a scientific explanation for it but you put these babies down and they go from being totally unknotted to totally knotted in seconds. I guess I should just be grateful it does not...
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Ferries on the Baltic Sea
I am a South African living on the shores of a huge inland sea in Sweden. After 20 years I still find snow and ice absolutely and utterly fascinating and enchanting. I love watching the sea freeze over...
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So many of us are ducks…
This has been the story of my life. I am not and have never been excellent at anything. Above average at certain things maybe, but by no means outstanding. I work hard though. At school, at...
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Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s
3-cent bus tickets ‘AC Kermans’ and as teenagers we used to be embarrassed to go in! Airline bags to carry your books in Annuals Autograph books Bay City Rollers Beano Bessie Bunter Bioscope BM Cotton...
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Fluffy and Ziggy photographs
This is Fluffy’s mother, Esmeralda. She is now 11 years old. I am forever grateful to her for giving me the most character-full (not a word I know but it fits Fluffy perfectly) cat I have ever had. and...
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Isn’t language strange?
When it comes to language, my first language is English, my second language is Afrikaans (African Dutch) and my third language is Swedish. This means I can understand spoken Dutch, Flemish, and...
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I have a bit of a tan!
In my youth, I used to bake for hours in the sun at every opportunity. There was no such thing as sunscreen – we used baby oil, cooking oil, Brylcreem etc to baste ourselves – and then we literally...
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I am a seasoned long haul traveller – I fly from Sweden to South Africa two or three times a year, I have done Johannesburg to Hong Kong, Zambia to Australia – you name it I have flown it. Sometimes I...
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The sadness of suicide
Now that Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain’s suicides are all over the media this week, the hardy annuals rear their ugly heads again: what a cowardly thing to do it’s the easy way out what a selfish...
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What was I thinking?
I have recently gone from my natural light brown hair colour to blonde, which is the colour I have been for most of my adult life. but when I was sorting through old passports and photographs in...
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Oddball hair products
When I was growing up there were not many hair products, so I used to wash my hair with horse shampoo take Bob Martin dog coat conditioning tablets rinse my hair with beer rinse my hair with lemon...
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