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Screw-ups, Slugs & Surfing!

Yo! Hello to you You may or may not have noticed that things have been a bit quiet here on the blog for a while. Things have been a little, shall we say, emotional & testing over the last few...

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Walk Barefoot in the Desert?

Would you ever walk barefoot in a desert in the dark to go and look for scorpions? You wouldn’t? No, neither would I but Gumby would have (nutter)! And until the other night I didn’t think anyone else...

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Orange Rhino charging through

Ok. Deep breath. I’m not proud of what I’m about to write however if I’m going to be totally honest and move forward with this blog in the way I hoped to then it’s confession time… Living Life can be...

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Choose Your Path: How to work out your values

When someone you love dies, your whole life changes and the safety you felt in your old existence is suddenly no longer there. Losing 2 of the 4 of our little family left my mom and I totally uncertain...

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Talking about our feelings

Anything that’s human is mentionable, & anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, & less scary. The...

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Lemonade Please. No Sugar

I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I’m working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on… it’s gonna make you...

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One Day At A Time

ODAAT. Otherwise known as One Day At A Time. That’s my motto at the moment. And one of the main reasons I have made it through day 16 of my no flour and no sugar mission. I heard this great story of an...

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Of course there are still nice people!

Like the rest of the world, I just cannot comprehend that another horrific act of terrorism has happened. Just a few days ago, yet another f***ing nutter blew himself up and along with him a whole lot...

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Minutes before bed time

Hi, Been a while since I’ve even looked at this blog never mind written anything. It’s fab though because people are still visiting every day and brilliantly, the post that gets the most views every...

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Going ‘public’

Hi, Man, this still sucks! I really want to write and be present on here and show up consistently but to be completely honest, lately it feels like if I do stuff on the blog it means I have to think...

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So Live Your Life … and 6 years on

Live Your Life So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your...

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The Tropic of Cancer

Sunset over the Nile River in the city of Aswan with sandy and deserted shores After much discussion, we have decided to complete our circumnavigation of the earth by travelling around the Tropic of...

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Fitness watches (and 1,000miles)

I think that is what they are called! Sounds good. Does it mean that wearing one will make you fit? Or perhaps send out messages to others that you are attempting to be fit? Or convince you to try a...

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Pyramids..

The most pyramids in Africa are found in Sudan!  With more than 225, Sudan has a number of sites where pyramids were constructed as tombs for the royalty of Meroe and Nepata.  A useless but interesting...

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An invitation

Grief & grieving… What comes to mind when you think about ‘grief’? We’d love to know! As many of you know, Jeremy – Gumby – my son, was lost to violent crime in South Africa nearly 7 1/2 years ago....

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Moving to remember..

A big thank you to those of you joining us on our virtual trip around the world, moving to remember our loved ones..  It is lovely to see the places you go and hearing your stories.   We are hoping to...

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Tropic of Cancer!

So at last I have a simple representation of the Tropic of Cancer and where it passes through! A big thanks to Mrs Wells – our friend from Durban days – for sorting this for me. It did prove beyond my...

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Let’s talk about loss, and grief..

  This is a long path we take, when we lose anyone we love. As all of you reading this will know, losing someone through violent crime is something else again. This was not inevitable. An act of...

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10,269km down..

A special thanks to those that are posting on the blog and/or the FB group!  We are moving to remember with you but I just don’t seem to be very good at posting..  Have set myself a goal to try and...

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A view of Giza from our hotel Note all the people and the scaffolding! Bedouins on the move… Just as I imagined a dog would have been all those thousands of years ago… The post appeared first on The...

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