Tag Archives: New Year

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 13 of Level 1, 13 October 2021!

 

Wednesday 13 October 2021, Day 13 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a more easy-going day, doing client editing and some posting; for a Bakoven walk; for 2 Discovery Gameboard plays; for a good Status meeting at Zest, exciting to hear how well it is doing 🙏; for another Bakoven walk, now much colder, as rain arrives later this evening; for having been spared the all-day Maintenance loadshedding, after already enduring a Loadshedding session from 6h00 this morning and another coming up at 22h00 this evening, and it being over and done with at 5h00 Continue reading →

Corona Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 84 of Level 1, 23 December 2020.

 

Wednesday 23 December, Day 94 of Level 1, Day 273 of Lockdown 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for gorgeous unexpected rain this afternoon although my Ant App certainly predicted it, and it being 10C cooler today; for a busy writing morning; for seeing my cleaning team only briefly, as our walk together was rained out this afternoon; for all the wonderful music to which I have been able to dance to on the Kfm FlashDrive show of Carl Wastie and Zoe Brown, keeping me sane throughout all Levels during Lockdown, doing its last 2020 broadcast this afternoon; for a lovely relaxing Pedicure at Sorbet Camps Bay, getting a 50% birthday discount; for getting two Discovery Gameboard plays, bagging another Woolworths voucher of R100 at the cost of 750 Miles (R75), and finding that I have a spare unused one; for a lovely cool walk through deserted Camps Bay this afternoon, checking with each restaurant if they will be open on all the public holiday days; for a one hour afternoon deep sleep after a very short sleep last night; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

A salute and toast to 2016: the best year ever!

imageI have rarely written about personal matters on my Blog. I am also long past formulating New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of a year. Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine that the universe would present me with a year of years in 2016, to top any I have ever experienced!  Continue reading →

New Year’s Eve restaurant staff Sweet and City of Cape Town Sour Service Awards! (reposted)

New Year glassesThe Sweet Service Award goes to all the restaurant chefs, kitchen staff, bar staff, and waitrons in Cape Town and the Winelands, who gave up their own New Year’s Eve celebrations to ensure that their patrons had a sparkling start to the New Year.

 

 

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