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The life of a senior citizen
I always thought I would want to cry the first time someone offered me a seat on public transport. I did not think it would happen so soon either. But for the past couple of years I have regularly...
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Turbulence
I have been flying long-haul for a long time. My first long-haul flight was in 1983, from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro. Compared to today, seats were wider, the food was better, and the tickets were...
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Cat people
Today I was using my ‘Catrick’ bag to carry some things I was sending off in the post. The woman beside me at the local coffee shop (just seen) commented on it and we we ended up having a wonderfully...
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Life in South Africa
Buying drinking water in the supermarket Scheduled power blackouts Solar-powerd lights charging on the windowsill A large range of amazing rechargable lights for blackouts The glorious smell of...
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Grief
I was not going to post this, but I wanted to thank you, my readers for all your messages and support when I mentioned it briefly a few weeks ago. My brother passed away peacefully on Sunday, after a...
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Mouse nipples?
When I am in South Africa, I always visit my dentist (who I have been going to since I was 18) and my doctor (who has been my doctor since I was 20). I do have a doctor and dentist in Sweden but my...
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Out and about
A pretty old coal chute A luggage storage facility in a local barber shop. I wondered why someone would need luggage storage here when the central station is close by, then I realised that there are...
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Photographs from over the years
I was going through my boxes of photographs to find nice ones for my brother’s memorial service. While I was doing that, so many thoughts went through my mind, and not all of them about the memories....
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A day’s wanderings
This watermelon soap (!) at Lush looked gorgeous. I love watermelon colours (watermelon tourmaline is one of my favourite stones) and I used to love watermelon as well. Unfortunately I ate fermenting...
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Adolescence series, Netflix
I watched this four-part series over the last couple of days. I won’t say anything else to prevent spoiling it. The acting is incredible (Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty were...
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Smells
I saw this in the underground station today: I often think that smell is one of our underappreciated senses. We usually think of sight and hearing, but smell can be so evocative. I love the smell of...
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A day
Finally warm enough to wear shoes! In the spring sunshine, I wore my classic trench coat by Filippa K and a gold-plated sterling silver ball bracelet For an evening meeting: HOPE shirt, Maanesten Leo...
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I would love to use 5 of these a day!
I know at least 60 percent of these words, but I don’t use very many of them (I do love discombobulate though, and use it frequently) These seem to be the sort of words my father and grandfather would...
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Photos
My daughter’s Maine Coon cat. Me at the boundary to a malaria area in South Africa. In those days you took the two-step protocol, Paludrine and Chloroquine. After that came Lariam (which had bad side...
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A day
My sister sent this photograph of the beach upon which we spent our days when we were children on holiday. This kind of beach stays in your soul forever. This dog bowl made me smile I saw this in a...
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Primi and Numi
About a month ago, my sister and I sponsored these sibling foster kittens at Raise n Rescue (the cat charity I support), in memory of our brother Dean. They are now growing nicely and will hopefully...
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