When we went for our first swim of the season recently, I very nearly had a major wardrobe malfunction … luckily the husbear noticed in time! I’d put on my tankini and was about to walk out the door when the husbear gasped: “I think you’d better take a look at the back of your […]

My biggest fans here on the blog are my own two kids – Mr 27 and Miss 24. If I am ever late with a post (or heaven forbid, miss one altogether, which does occasionally happen because you know, life), I get scolded in a barrage of text messages. You can also be assured that […]

In last week’s post about our daughter’s wedding, I mentioned that I had to lose a bit of weight in order to wear the gorgeous mother of the bride dress I’d bought way back in October 2019. Since then I’ve had a couple of people ask me how I lost those corona kilos, so I […]

It feels like years since our daughter announced her engagement, and the wedding preparations began …  Maybe that’s because it HAS been years! Engaged in October 2018, the kids originally set the date for 1st May 2020 (just days before our own 30th wedding anniversary). Alas, along came Covid and by the end of March the […]