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Category Archives: Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Cappuccino, Puff Adder & Road Trip
Thursday Dear Elsie Today was the day that featured a cappuccino, a puff adder and a road trip. Let me start, my darling one, of saying how excited I am to be writing this from your house this evening! Yes, … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Living on Fish Hoek mountainside, Puff adder, Snakes
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Another Box Ticked
Tuesday Dear Elsie Today was the day we finally got another box ticked. The building inspector approved of the plumbing in the plot behind and Courage and Brian can now continue the stairs. Julian and Gerrie flew back to Johannesburg. … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Fish Hoek
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Swimming Through Murky Water
Monday Dear Elsie Today was the day we went to the beach. There wasn’t too much wind, but what there was came from the north. Walking down the cat walk, I could already see there were undercurrents and rip tides … Continue reading
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Tagged Fish Hoek Beach, Sea swimming
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Summer Vibes
Sunday Dear Elsie Today was the day we had a very good rest. Most of South Africa woke up still reveling in the fact that, last night, South African Springboks snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. We were losing … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Cricket World Cup 2023, False Bay, Nandos, Rugby World Cup 2023, SA Navy
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Cats & Cricket
Saturday Dear Elsie Today I took loads of photos of the cats throughout the day. You can see how much they park off in the cat corner. This is a corner of the lounge, where they have their cat stand … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Cats, Cricket World Cup 2023, Rugby World Cup 2023
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An Awful Day
Thursday Dear Elsie Today was an awful day. It was not serious awful, it was just stressful awful. We all worked way too hard and had too many extra issues to deal with that left all of us frazzled and … Continue reading
Posted in Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Fish Hoek water, Frustrations, Water issues
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Home From Wolfkop
Wednesday Dear Elsie Today we came home from Wolfkop. The day began with cappuccino on the balcony with lovely light across the mountains. View from the balcony.. We chatted for more than an hour and then just after 8, we … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Flame Lilies, Wolfkop
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4 Years Ago & 3 Years Ago
Sunday Dear Elsie Today was the day we had a guest check out and we needed to clean the Seaview apartment before the next guests arrive tomorrow. We also had one of January’s guests arrive to see the cottage. She … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged cricket, Looking back, Rugby World Cup 2023, Sport
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Log on the Rocks
Friday Dear Elsie Today was the day we saw the logs on the rocks. I had read about this on Facebook & this morning when we went for our swim, it was low tide, so we got to see the … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Fish Hoek, Fish Hoek Beach, Long Covid, Long covid treatment
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Highs & Lows of the Day
Thursday Dear Elsie Today was the day that had highs and lows. The biggest high of the last 24 hours though, was hearing that yesterday, you, my sweet, darling Elsie, invited Jesus into your heart. I couldn’t be more delighted. … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged David, Elsie, God's salvation, Long Covid, Long covid treatment
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Hadedas at Sunrise
Wednesday Dear Elsie Today was the day we saw large noisy hadedas at sunrise. They are the noisiest birds in Africa! It was a glorious morning, so we threw open our bedroom balcony doors. Raiku immediately was drawn to them. … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Claw'd and Raiku, Fish Hoek Beach, Fish Hoek sunrise, hadedas
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When Fake is Good!
Tuesday Dear Elsie Today was the day that Mike and David dropped Julian at the airport and then went onto Stellenbosch for David to have two lots of blood done. They were home after 12. David was tired. Small steps. … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Artificial lawn, Claw'd and Raiku, Courage
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Clawed by Claw’d
Monday Dear Elsie It had to happen! Yesterday was the day I got clawed by Claw’d. I had picked him up, had him on my lap and he was just sitting there when someone accidentally knocked over a cup. It … Continue reading
Posted in Apartment living, Day to Day Blogs, Living on Fish Hoek mountainside
Tagged Claw'd, Claw'd and Raiku, Life with cats, Rotator Cuff injury
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Back to Kommetjie
Saturday Dear Elsie, Today was the day we woke early and before 8, David and I took a drive to Kommetjie. We returned to where we had walked on 3rd April. David had been sick for 6 weeks. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged David, Granny, Kommetjie, Long Covid
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Biggest Lesson Learned From Airbnb
Friday Dear Elsie It’s been two years since we put our units on Airbnb and started hosting. And there is one massive lesson I learned almost immediately. We had put together the listing and were about to push the publish … Continue reading
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Tagged Airbnb, Andy Stanley
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